let alone

Definition

Much less; to say nothing of; used after one negative clause to introduce another, usually broader and more important clause, whose negation is implied by the negation of the first. However either of these instances mentioned can be applied with the use of let alone.

Example Sentences

• "He couldn't boil water, let alone prepare a dinner for eight."
• "My last run this month is an amazing performance of an "A2/3" Pacific, No. 60524, Herringbone (could there possibly be a more infelicitous name for a locomotive than this, let alone for the unhappy horse which first had to bear it?), […]."
• "At the end of another ten years, let alone sixty, we are likely to see a very different pattern in the realm of British passenger locomotive power."