not so much sth as sth
Definition
› 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.Yes, no and not
(Definition of not so much sth as sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- by no means idiom
- check exclamation
- do bears shit in the woods? idiom
- hear, hear! idiom
- is the Pope a Catholic? idiom
- less determiner, pronoun, adverb
- nay adverb (NO)
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