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not to mention en · CCONJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.
    • In fact, the immortal tunemeister Irving Berlin wrote all three [songs], along with about 1,500 others, not to mention the scores for eighteen Hollywood films and nineteen Broadway musicals. 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
    • The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall.
    • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time. 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

Relateds

let alone · much less · apophasis

Synonyms

to say nothing of

Translations (40)

pl co dopiero (much less) · izh nesto (much less) · cmn 何況 /何况 (much less) · pl nie mówiąc już o (much less) · sk nehovoriac o (much less) · gd gun luaidh (much less) · pt sem falar de (much less) · pl nie mówiąc o (much less) · hu nem is beszélve (much less) · fi saati (much less) · da for ikke at tale om (much less) · es para no hablar de (much less) · es por no mencionar (much less) · es por no hablar de (much less) · ar هٰذَا عَدَا عَنْ (much less) · da for ikke at nævne (much less) · de zugeschweigen (much less) · es sin mencionar (much less) · cs nemluvě (much less) · cmn 更不用說 /更不用说 (much less) · pl nie wspominając o (much less) · he שֶׁלֹּא לְדַבֵּר עַל (much less) · is hvað þá heldur (much less) · ro darămite (much less) · nl om nog maar te zwijgen van (much less) · es sin hablar de (much less) · pl nie wspominając już o (much less) · es por no decir (much less) · no for ikke å snakke om (much less) · sv för att inte tala om (much less) · it senza parlare di (much less) · tr bırak (much less) · cy heb sôn am (much less) · ru не говоря́ уже́ о (much less) · uk не ка́жучи вже про (much less) · de ganz zu schweigen von (much less) · ga gan trácht ar (much less) · fi puhumattakaan (much less) · ar نَاهِيكَ عَن (much less) · fr sans parler de (much less)