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hard up

ADJECTIVE
  1. not having enough money to pay for necessities

How To Use hard up In A Sentence

  • The director pulled Richard up for being late again today.
  • Catherine French and Rachel Doherty worked hard up front and Kate Bradley and Sarah Male were able to continually feed balls through to them.
  • Hardly had we secreted ourselves when we spied a flotilla of a Roman expeditionary force sailing hard upstream.
  • In fact, pizza has always been a popular choice for people who are hard up for money. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is hard upon Christianity and its “trinal God”: I have not softened his expression The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
  • Don't bear hard upon the pencil, it will break.
  • I have to say, amigos, I was pretty hard up by the time I stumbled onto this plan.
  • Some were further guarded from prying eyes by sort of gridirons, politely called balconies, though, since the platform had been forgotten, and only the protecting railings were there hard up against the glass, the name was deceptive. The Good Comrade
  • You must have been uncommonly hard up for something to do. The House of Mirth
  • Others claimed that punters were just hard up, cleaned-out after the festive period.
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