hard up

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
2. adjective Lacking anything.

   We were hard up for amusements.

3. adjective Desperate.

   Dating him? She must be hard up.

4. verb Synonym of harden up (to become or make hard)

Similar words

poor penurious penniless impecunious pinched in straitened circumstances hard-up disadvantaged strapped for cash strapped for money