English translation of "à bocadinho" - "a little while ago"

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163 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Portuguese > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	à bocadinho
Context:	À bocadinho, quando entrei em casa, um gato preto, meigo e lindíssimo, estava encostado...
Keywords:	...à porta...The protagonist has just come home from a violin recital.

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163 months ago

wrote:

a little while ago

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163 months ago

wrote:

A short time before

My comment:

à bocadinho refers to a short time ago (if speaking in the present), and a short while before, if speaking in the past.

Very typical Portuguese phrase.
In Brazil: Faz pouco (tempo...)

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