archu.mohan wrote:I am trying to understand what the following statement conveys:
He wins frequently, AS MUCH because he plays SO hard AS because he cheats.
(Idioms in CAPS)
Can someone clarify for me please?
I think I might be able to help a little bit.
I am not sure that this is an idiom that you have used in your sentence. It seems to be maybe a confusion between different idioms. For example, "as much as" is an idiom and "so much so" and "so much as" are idioms too. But I don't think that "as much so as" is an idiom. That might be why it's hard to understand. It was hard for me to understand the sentence the first time I saw it.
Here are some links that will give you definitions and examples of the idioms I mentioned:
1.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/so+much+as
2.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/so+much+so
3.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+much+as
If I were to write down the idea that you were trying to convey in that sentence, I would probably write something like:
"He wins frequently, as much from playing hard as from cheating."
Again, I would recheck your sources to see if your sentence is correctly written. Also, I'd be interested to find out where this idiom came from since I am not familiar with it.
