hard up
Adjective
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Adjective
hard up
- (colloquial) Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
- 1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On being hard up
- I can speak with authority on the subject of being hard up. I have been a provincial actor. If further evidence be required, which I do not think likely, […]
- 1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On being hard up
- (colloquial) Lacking anything.
- We were hard up for amusements.
- (colloquial, by extension) Desperate.
- Dating him? She must be hard up.
- See also Thesaurus:impoverished
- Russian: на мели́
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