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let alone

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English

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Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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let alone

(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative)Much less;to say nothing of;used after one negative clause to introduce another, usually broader and more important clause, whose negation is implied by the negation of the first. However either of these instances mentioned can be applied with the use of let alone.
He couldn't boil water,let alone prepare a dinner for eight.
- 1953 December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Performance and Performance”, inRailway Magazine, page838:
  My last run this month is an amazing performance of an "A2/3" Pacific, No. 60524,Herringbone (could there possibly be a more infelicitous name for a locomotive than this,let alone for the unhappy horse which first had to bear it?),[…].
(idiomatic, chiefly in the positive, rare)Not to mention, as well as;used after one item, to introduce a further item which is entailed by the first.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)

Usage notes

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Sometimes used with the order of items reversed.

Translations

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to say nothing of

Arabic:نَاهِيك(nāhīk)
Armenian:էլ չասած(ēl čʻasac),ուր մնաց (hy)(ur mnacʻ)
Bulgarian:ка́мо ли(kámo li)
Chinese:
Mandarin:更不用說 /更不用说(gèng bùyòng shuō),何況 /何况 (zh)(hékuàng),遑論 /遑论 (zh)(huánglùn)
Czech:natož (cs)
Danish:endnu mindre,endsige,end mindre
Dutch:laat staan,gezwegen van,om maar te zwijgen van
Esperanto:des malpli
Finnish:puhumattakaan,saati (fi),saati sitten
French:encore moins,et encore moins (fr),sans compter (fr),sans parler de (fr)
German:geschweige denn,geschweige (de)
Greek:πόσο μάλλον (el)(póso mállon)
Hebrew:קַל וָחֹמֶר (he)(kal vaẖómer),לא כֹּל שֶׁכֵּן (he)(lo kol shekén),עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה (he)('al aẖát kamma v'chamma)
Hungarian:nemhogy (hu),hát még,még kevésbé,nem is beszélve,végképp (hu)
Indonesian:apalagi (id)
Ingrian:nesto
Italian:nonché (it),per non parlare di,figuriamoci
Japanese:どころか(dokoroka),もちろん (ja)(mochiron)
Javanese:aja cacak (jv),aja manèh,apa manèh
Korean:커녕 (ko)(keonyeong)
Latin:nedum
Macedonian:ка́моли(kámoli)
Norwegian:enn si
Persian:چه برسه
Polish:co dopiero (pl)
Portuguese:muito menos,quanto mais,que dirá,quem dirá
Romanian:darămite (ro),ce să mai vorbim,nici vorbă
Russian:не говоря́ уже́ (о) (ru)(ne govorjá užé (o)),(а) тем бо́лее((a) tem bóleje)
Scottish Gaelic:gun luaidh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:још мање,камоли,а камоли
Roman:još manje,kamoli,a kamoli (sh)
Slovak:a už vôbec nie,nehovoriac o
Slovene:kaj šele
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian:zabywši
Spanish:y mucho menos,ni qué hablar de,por no hablar de,menos aún
Swedish:än mindre,och ännu mindre
Turkish:(colloquial)bırak
Urdu:چہ جائے کہ(cih jā'ye kih)

as well as

Dutch:laat staan
Finnish:puhumattakaan,saati (fi),saati sitten
French:sans compter (fr),sans parler de (fr)
German:geschweige denn
Indonesian:apalagi (id)
Italian:così come,come anche
Portuguese:ainda mais
Romanian:ce să mai vorbim
Slovak:a samozrejme
Spanish:así como,sin contar con,además de

References

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Charles J. Fillmore, Paul Kay, Catherine O'Connor (September 1988) "Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: The case oflet alone"Language (Vol.64 No.3) pp.501-538
Mark Liberman (24 February 2011) "Much less/Or even"Language Log
E. Ward Gilman (editor)Merriam–Webster's Dictionary of English Usagep.596, Merriam–Webster, 1994→ISBN.

Verb

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let alone (third-person singular simple presentlets alone,present participleletting alone,simple past and past participlelet alone)

(transitive) Toleave alone,let be; to stop bothering.
Synonym:leave alone
I wish he wouldlet mealone so I could get some sleep.
(transitive, colloquial, dated) Torely on (a person) to do something.
- 1838, Marguerite Countess of Blessington,The Works of Lady Blessington (page 223)
  Oh!let him alone for that. He's the boy that can get out of a scrape.
- 1849, William Carleton,Tales and Sketches, page81:
  "It's not easy gettin' as good," rejoined the old woman, "an' you ought to be very glad to win him, if you can."
  "Let me alone for that," said Sally.