a duras penas
Portuguese
Adverb
a duras penas (not comparable)
- with great effort or difficulty
Spanish
Adverb
a duras penas
- (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