not a bit

For the uninitiated, the premise may sound bleak, but not a bit of it.

Eight consecutive losses to a team probably makes that punctuation appropriate if not a bit of an undersell.

As Terris documents, Adams likes to sow confusion over how serious he is about any of this, telling Terris at one point that he's playing "a character," but then contradicting himself: "This is not a character. This is not a bit. It's not trolling."

As Times columnist Mark Z. Barabak put it: “The calculus is plain. Schiff is hoping to clinch the Senate seat in the March 5 primary by lifting his weakest possible opponent, Garvey, into a November runoff. Brazen? Sure. Cynical or anti-democratic, as some critics claim? Not a bit. ... This is politics, after all. Not patty-cake.”

Such has been Chelsea's fragility and flimsy character this season that the fear for them was an early Villa goal in the second half would derail their dramatic improvement - not a bit of it.