Phrase info

if that

Meaning

if that

or even less. at most.
"My car is so old that, if I were to sell it, I would get a hundred pounds, if that."
"There is not much to discuss, so today's meeting should be over in half an hour, if that."

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Examples

... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead. Symeon the New Theologian

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. Isaac Asimov

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. Robert Benchley

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. Martha Graham

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Wallace Stevens

If that man went to a wedding, he'd stay for the christening (To be said of someone who outstays their welcome). Irish Proverb

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