muchless

1. (idiomatic)Let alone;to say nothing of.
   • 1927-29,M.K. Gandhi,The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated1940 byMahadev Desai,Part I, Chapter xxi:

     Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling,much less knowledge, 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 Assembly

     It 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.

The idiomatic construction follows this form:

• "not [a small thing],much less [a bigger thing]" – "She was so poor that she had not a single coin, much less the large amount demanded."
• "not [to do a small thing],much less [to do a bigger thing]." – "He has broken his ankle. He can not even walk, much less run and jump".

• let alone
• not to mention

• “much (or still) less”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

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