scarcely\ ever

scarcely\ ever
• hardly ever
• scarcely ever
adv. phr.
Very rarely; almost never; seldom.

It hardly ever snows in Florida.

Johnny hardly ever reads a book.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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  • scarcely ever — see ↑ever • • • Main Entry: ↑scarcely …   Useful english dictionary

  • scarcely ever — See: HARDLY EVER …   Dictionary of American idioms

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  • hardly/scarcely ever — almost never : ↑rarely She hardly ever sings anymore. I scarcely ever think of them now. • • • Main Entry: ↑ever …   Useful english dictionary

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  • scarcely — adverb 1) she could scarcely hear what he was saying Syn: hardly, barely, only just; almost not 2) I scarcely ever see him Syn: rarely, seldom, infrequently, not often, hardly ever, almost never, on …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • scarcely — Synonyms and related words: a bit, a little, at infrequent intervals, barely, by a hair, by an ace, by no means, ever so little, exiguously, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, hardly, hardly ever, here and there, imperfectly, in a measure, in a… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • ever — See: FOREVER AND EVER, HARDLY EVER or SCARCELY EVER …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • ever — See: FOREVER AND EVER, HARDLY EVER or SCARCELY EVER …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • ever — See: forever and ever, hardly ever or scarcely ever …   Словарь американских идиом

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