a duras penas
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Portuguese
[edit]Adverb
[edit]a duras penas (not comparable)
- with great effort or difficulty
Spanish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) barely, hardly; with great effort or difficulty
- Synonym: (dated) a malas penas
Further reading
[edit]- “a duras penas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014