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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hardly make it" is a perfectly correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea that you only just barely managed to do something. For example, "I had to rush to the store, and I could hardly make it before it closed!".
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He said it rolls down one hill and can hardly make it up the next.
He could hardly make it into the theater, people were so keen to get his attention.
Inside, McSorley's was so packed that one could hardly make it inside.
But without the full-throated political and financial support of Ms. Mostyn, she could hardly make it.
Even at the time Miller could hardly make it through a press conference without acknowledging it wasn't really her sort of movie.
Short of stamping it with sealing wax and delivering it on a velvet pillow, the government could hardly make it clearer that something important is afoot.
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Its actively purchased percentage was 87.0%, hardly making it the most virtuous magazine in existence.
This often-divided region, with its complicated historical relationships, has witnessed various tensions, hardly making it an economic entity, which structurally exhibits a cohesive whole.
Its declared aim the complete elimination of the Zionist enemy—hardly makes it a congenial neighbour in Israeli eyes.
What I saw online hardly made it less so.
It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it?
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