not to mention
Conjunction
  1. (idiomatic) Used by the speaker to mention another important point; an apophasis.
    • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, gbooks :
      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.
    The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: sans parler de
  • German: zugeschweigen (archaic), ganz zu schweigen von
  • Portuguese: sem falar de
  • Russian: не говоря́ уже́ о
  • Spanish: sin mencionar, por no hablar de, para no hablar de, por no decir



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