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hardly/scarcely earth-shattering
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[hardly/scarcely etc.] earth-shattering
not very surprising or shocking. We were all expecting the announcement. It wasn't exactly earth-shattering news.
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For those of us who grew up "out here," however, his observations are hardly earth-shattering revelations.
Today, the notion that people caught in the vise of sexual anxieties are apt to be distracted from the fundamental flow of touching and being touched, developing personal closeness and comfort, and relaxing during a sensual encounter is hardly earth-shattering, but in the 1950s and 1960s therapists had largely ignored this issue or addressed it only in abstract ways.
For Wasner, the discoveries have been hardly earth-shattering, considering there are more than 100,000 soils identified in the U.
 
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