Talk:all the more

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Please,everyone say me:what does it mean all the more so?

"even more so" - "more (in) that way"

It means all the more so. The so refers to some adverbial or adjectival phrase preceding. DCDuring TALK 01:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

so much the better[edit]

so much the better is syntactically related to this idiom --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:52, 4 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

all the -er: as ... as[edit]

Expressions like all the farther/higher occur chiefly in informal speech: This is all the farther the bus goes. That's all the higher she can jump. Elsewhere as far/high as are generally used. 
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/all --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)Reply