a duras penas

Portuguese

Adverb

a duras penas (not comparable)

1. with great effort or difficulty

Spanish

Adverb

a duras penas

1. (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