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| just barely (The Liberals managed to win that seat, just barely. ART Vancouver); by a narrow squeak (Anglophile); with great difficulty (bookworm); with pain and misery (Andrey Truhachev); just barely (Andrey Truhachev); at great cost; drudgingly | |||
| by the hair of one's chinny-chin-chin (Russia scored a very lucky early goal against Denmark and skated to a pretty easy 4-0 win. The Americans, even by their own admission, got here by the hair of their chinny-chin-chin, being outplayed badly by the Swiss the last half of the game but hanging on for a 3-2 win. VLZ_58); with much ado (Yeldar Azanbayev) | |||
| с большим трудом: 41 phrases in 6 subjects |
| Figurative | 1 |
| General | 18 |
| Idiomatic | 2 |
| Informal | 3 |
| Makarov | 10 |
| Mass media | 7 |