much less

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Let alone;to say nothing of.1927-29,M.K. Gandhi,The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated1940byMahadev Desai,Part I, Chapter xxi:Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling,much lessknowledge, at the time.1919, Parker Hoysted Fillmore,The Three Citrons:Why, not even a little bird or a tiny butterfly comes here, much less a human being!1895.M.K. Gandhi,Petition to Natal Legislative AssemblyIt is hopeless for him to return to India and expect to earn bread, much less to make a fortune.1886, Ulysses S. Grant,Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant:We had not at Chattanooga animals to pull a single piece of artillery, much less a supply train.

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