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more's the pity
phr. (context idiom English) It is a pity; it is unfortunate.
Usage examples of "more's the pity".
You are not wanting in intelligence, Dawes, more's the pity--and you can't deny the justice of that.
But the radiation left from dropping a couple of billion megatons on that valley, and we don't have that much, more's the pity, will raise the background radiation of the Tennessee to that of, oh, living downwind of a coal-fired power plant.
Then I said, Nor with an arrow in his back, more's the pity, and we both went off into the foolish laughter that only drunks understand.