so much as

English

Adverb

so much as (not comparable)

1. Even; suggests a minimum, especially regarding what might be expected.

   Synonym: as much as

   Without so much as asking, he walked into the office and started digging through their files.

   If she so much as looked at another man, I’d divorce her!

   • 1927 March 5, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”, in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, London: John Murray, […], published June 1927 (May 1952 printing), →OCLC, page 280:

     “Well, she seems to have lost all interest in the horses. For a week now she has driven past the stables with never so much as ‘good morning’!”

2. But rather.

   I'm not staring at her breasts so much as admiring her brooch.

Translations

even

• Finnish: edes (fi)
• Polish: choćby (pl)
• Russian: даже не (daže ne), хотя бы (ru) (xotja by)

but rather

• Finnish: vaan (fi)
• Russian: не столько, сколько (ne stolʹko, skolʹko)

Anagrams

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