"I feel such relief that I can hardly tell you about it," said the Reading chairman, John Madejski, as he sipped from a can of lager.
If, standing in front of our familiar car, I say to my family, 'The car will not start', I am hardly telling them that we have, or there is, a certain car.
I could hardly tell my neighbors in my elegant suburban community that I was a professional pornographer.
"I know it's him, but his face is just swollen so large I can hardly tell it's him," the father said.
I suppose we will have to take her word for this - though writers, I need hardly tell you, are frighteningly ruthless, and are often to be found performing this kind of guilty cover-up once their literary acts of matricide or patricide are tucked between hard covers.
Yeah, Jon said, But you're so cool, I can hardly tell.
I can hardly tell you what kind of hot potato Renata Adler became in New York.
I need hardly tell you the young ladies were not deterred.
I need hardly tell you henceforward, in my restricted world, you were the only thing that interested me..."...
In the mayhem of the early matches that night, I could hardly tell the rudos from the técnicos.
