Couple of and Hardly a

Couple of

Couple of adjective - More than one but indefinitely small in number.
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Hardly a and couple of are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hardly a" instead an adjective phrase "Couple of".

Hardly a

Hardly a adjective - Very few.
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Synonyms for Hardly a

Couple of and hardly a are semantically related. You can use "Couple of" instead an adjective phrase "Hardly a".

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  • Friend or Foe Between drunkeness, lack of communication, and darkness two Austrian forces both end up thinking they are under Turkish attack; when the Turkish army showed up a couple of days later they find 10,000 casualties and the rest long gone so they take the nearby town with hardly a shot.
    Source: Friend or Foe
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Hardly a and Couple of. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/couple_of/hardly_a
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