not so much sth as sth
If you say that something is not so much one thing as something else, you mean it is more the second thing:
They're not so much lovers as friends.
I don't feel angry so much as sad.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Yes, no & not
- absolutely
- anything
- bet
- betcha
- does a bear/do bears shit in the woods? idiom
- fear
- hear, hear! idiom
- hell
- much
- no dice idiom
- no way idiom
- noes
- not by any manner of means idiom
- not that idiom
- perish
- perish the thought idiom
- see sb in hell before ... idiom
- think
- yea or nay idiom
- yes
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