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单词 to say nothing of
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to say nothing of
c. to say nothing of: used to refer to an additional fact or point which reinforces the speaker's or writer's case (a rhetorical device suggesting that the full strength of the argument is not being presented); = not to mention —— at mention v. Phrases 1a.
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1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (xlv.) f. 174 Suffer not onely other frendes in kindred neere them (to say nothing of the naked members of Christ) but euen their Parents that bred and bare them.
1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 19/2 Greater cruelty..(to say nothing of deuillary, atheisme and popery) I know no where.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum 115 His Rational of Private State in Britain, to say nothing of other inferior Officers.
1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved II. ii. 35 Oaken Coals, beaten and mix'd with Honey, cure the Carbuncle; to say nothing of the Viscus's, Polypods, and other Excrescencies, of which innumerable Remedies are composed.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 344 The very air of the south of France is almost a specific for it [sc. consumption], to say nothing of the faculty there, who are peculiarly great in this malady.
1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate I. 120 It will be the fault of us, the mechanics of Boston, if we don't re-model, and re-rig, to say nothing of re-anchoring the public ship.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 127 Murder, to say nothing of assault and battery, has been..an everyday matter.
1962 Home Managem. (Homecraft Ser.) 27 Much damage is caused to dressing-table and bed-side table tops by spilled cosmetics and perfumes, to say nothing of marks..caused by that early-morning cup of tea.
1976 J. Crosby Nightfall xxxii. 191 Elf was her revolutionary sister-in-arms... To say nothing of her lover.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Aug. 14/4 Its commerce causes great harm to the Amazonian rainforests of Brazil and Peru, to say nothing of the indigenous people.
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