not in the least

least / li:st / indef det, indef pron

(က) အနည်းဆုံး။ (det )
He’s the best teacher, even though he has the least experience. ❍ She aims to make as much money as possible with the least amount of effort. ❍ MUCH¹
(ခ) (pron ) အနည်းဆုံး။ အရေးမပါဆုံး။ ယုတ်စွအဆုံး။
She gave (the) least of all towards the wedding present. ❍ That’s the least of my worries (ie I have many more important things to worry about)! ❍ It’s the least I can do to help (ie I feel I should do more).
adv အနည်းဆုံး။ မ (မျှော်လင့်၊ တတ်နိုင်စသည်)ဆုံး။
just when we least expected it ❍ affecting the people who can least afford it ❍ She chose the least expensive of the hotels. ❍ one of the least performed of Shakespeare’s plays.
❏ at least [IDM ]
၁။ အနည်းဆုံး။ at least 3 months / £ 5 / 10 inches ❍ Cut the grass at least once a week in summer. ❍ I’ve known her at least as long as you have.
၂။ ယုတ်စွအဆုံး။ ဘာပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ She may be slow but at least she’s reliable. ❍ At least, he thought, they wouldn’t be bored this year.
၃။ ဘယ်လိုဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ ဘယ်နည်းနှင့်မဆို။ ယုတ်စွအဆုံး။ အနည်းဆုံး။ Let’s at least give this approach a try.
❏ at the (very) least [IDM ] အနည်းဆုံး။ It’ll take a year, at the very least.
❏ least of all [IDM ] (ကြောင့်ကြဖို့) မရှိဆုံး။ Nobody need worry about losing their job, you least of all/ least of all you.
❏ not in the least [IDM ] လုံးဝမဟုတ်သော။ Really, I’m not in the least tired. တကယ်ပါ၊ နည်းနည်းမျှ မမောပါဘူး။ ❍ ‘Would you mind if I put the television on?’ ‘No, not in the least. ’ ကိစ္စမရှိပါဘူး။
❏ not least [IDM ] အထူးသဖြင့်။
The documentary caused a lot of bad feeling, not least among the workers whose lives it described.