not to mention

Definitions

An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention⟳ having a three million dollar budget shortfall.”

“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.”

“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.”

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