Conjunction
to say nothing of
(idiomatic) An apophasis used to mention another important, usually related, point: not taking into account, not to mention, without considering.
She had already eaten a large lunch, to say nothing of a full cooked breakfast that morning.
Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns. John Muir
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter! Sinclair Lewis
There has been 32 isms since the advent of Cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex. Mark Tobey
...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. Frank Knight
I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence. Walter Savage Landor
A man's body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect? Arthur Schopenhauer