As Much Meaning

Example : Likewise, similarly, in a similar manner.  I think she's fat, but when I said as much to her, she got very upset.1921, Edwin Balmer, "Settled Down", in Everybody's Magazine, volume 44, number 2, February 1921, page 50 [1]:  It's too damn foolish; why he as much as said so himself.2005, Brigitte Goldstein, translator, Mr. Brecher's Fiasco, ISBN 0299214303, page 154 [2]:  For as soon as he as much as took out his pince-nez to read the newspaper, the privy councilor's wife was his advance trumpeter, who sounded the fanfare and said, "Now Papa puts on his eyes."Used other than as an idiom: see as,‎ much.