canto de un duro

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Meanings:

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Spaininformalcolloquial
- A very small margin or narrow difference; a hair's breadth.
- To be just short of or almost achieve something; to be on the verge of, but not quite reaching, a given outcome.

Examples:

ES: Por que mira, hace nada, ella... Pues que le faltó el canto de un duro para declararse y...
EN: Because look, you do nothing, she... well you lacked a hard edge to declare your feelings and...
ES: cada uno de nosotros está al canto de un duro de pasar toda la vida en la cárcel.
EN: of spending the rest of their lives in prison.

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