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еле-еле

adv.
stresses
gen. hardly; barely; by a finger's breadth; narrow; just barely (о расстоянии ART Vancouver); by a narrow margin; just; with the skin of one's teeth; ever so slowly (Traffic on Hwy 1 creeping ever so slowly between Gagliardi and Kensington – еле ползёт ART Vancouver); faintly; with much effort (Он еле-еле прикрепил вагон. Rudnicki); laboriously (Rudnicki); strenuously (Rudnicki); arduously (Rudnicki); gruelingly (Rudnicki); scarcely; cumbersomely (Rudnicki); by the skin of one's teeth (We escaped by the skin of our teethHe escaped bankruptcy by the skin of his teeth); narrowly (The ball narrowly missed his head)
austral., slang by a nose
dial. scant
fig.of.sp. by the slimmest of margins (пройти по габаритам, удовлетворить требования и т.п. ART Vancouver)
idiom. by the skin of one's teeth (We were able to catch the train but only by the skin of our teeth.); by the hair of one's chinny-chin-chin (VLZ_58)
Makarov. narrowly; almost
mus. appena
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