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Hello, could you please paraphrase the phrase in inverted commas:

And so meetings in Luxembourg tend to flictuate between English, French, German and Luxemburgish. Now, on the first two I am OK. On the German I can just about "hang on by my fingernails". Luxemburgish is a bit of a challenge.
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= just about manage (with some difficulty)
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