"Let alone" Definition

Definitions for the word "Let alone" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
an expression which signifies “much less” as used in comparative statement or argument. “I cannot afford five shillings, LET ALONE five pounds.” Barham, in one of the Ingoldsby Legends, says:— “I have not had, this livelong day, one drop to cheer my heart, Nor brown to buy a bit of bread with—LET ALONE a tart.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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