a duras penas
Portuguese
Spanish
Adverb
- (idiomatic) barely, hardly; with great effort or difficulty
- Synonym: (dated) a malas penas
Further reading
- “a duras penas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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