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Originally Posted by Hanka  I thought "litterally" means "without exagerration"
Hanka |
So if you didn't
actually run,
literally would be slightly misleading, in this context, to a standard, formal English speaker. Instead, you could say 'We had little time to arrange necessary formalities so we
nearly had to run at the airport.'
b
PS
Or you could say '
practically had to run' - an ironic choice of words since originally
practically meant in 'practice/in fact'. But today it just means 'very nearly'.