ita: a mala pena

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Meaning
means	(adverb) only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats hardly, scarce, scarcely, just, barely