just much less dreadful

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Dear native teachers ...1. What does 'solid iron affairs' mean?2. What does 'day tomorrow' mean?3. What does 'just that much less dreadful' mean?

GPY · Accepted Answer

1. This is sense 1.4 of "affair" at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/affair : " An object of a particular type".

2. "My horrific day would be ...", with "tomorrow" indicating that the day in question is tomorrow.

3. It would be less dreadful. The extent to which it would be less dreadful is "just that much", referring to the amount by which having the truck alleviates the dreadfulness.

Contraposition · Answer

Thank you. But what does 'just that much' mean? I couldn't find it as an idiom in any dictionaries.

GPY · Answer

contrapositionThank you. But what does 'just that much' mean? I couldn't find it as an idiom in any dictionaries.

It isn't really an idiom. "that much" means "to the amount/extent indicated by 'that'". The meaning of "just" is hard to exactly pin down or define here. I guess it adds a kind of emphasis.

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