be so much/many something

be so much/many (something)

To be something completely or at the expense of being anything else. These equations are so much gibberish to me. I think I need tutoring. Poetry so much frivolous nonsense to me. "Do I dare to eat a peach?" Like, who cares, T. S. Eliot! Your constituents can't just be so many faces to you—you have to make a real connection with them.

See also: many, much

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be so much/many something

be completely something; be just or only something: All his fine speeches are so much rubbish if he doesn’t keep his promises. ♢ All these politicians are just so many names to me. I don’t know any of them.

See also: many, much, something

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