"Not So Much"
Does anyone know where this phrase originated?It's everywhere. Pundits everywhere are using it to dismiss movies, politicians, business concepts, etc. Usually, it's paired with a halting and sarcastic...
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Amazing how clueless some people are. The first response on the alt.usage thread quotes a line from Lorna Doone (1869): "I have no more education than you have, John Ridd; nay, and not so much," and...
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As one of the posters there points out, it was certainly one of the stock phrases of Paul Reiser's character in Mad About You. It wouldn't be the first time that a phrase from a popular TV show became...
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There must've been a more recent U.S. TV usage than Mad About You. A guy here at work was saying it all the time about a year ago, so it was probably on The Sporanos or some show like that. Anyway, it...
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"Not much!" is (used to be?) a derisive Cockney negative, equivalent to "No way!" "Never happen!" as in:""She thinks 'e'll ask 'er to marry 'im? Not much!"
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It does not exactly equal "not as much", and the usages I know which will not account for the late usage in America are:- Old TV satire programme from the sixtiesNSMAPMAWOLand - Stock response,...
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Here's a "Mad About You" post on the subject from 1996:groups.google.com/group/a...f9da789547It seems to me that Cokie Roberts on NPR used it a lot during the 2004 presidential campaign (and may still...
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