be hard up
Example Sentences
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George laughs gruffly: “You lot must be hard up for heroes.”
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018
The finding that loneliness can be contagious also caught some readers off-guard—wouldn't lonely souls be hard up for people to infect?
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2010
I am trying to raise the wind here: it seems absurd that I should be "hard up," but it is a long story.
From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by Blair, David Hunter
He must be hard up indeed before he could think of his grandfather.
From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)
The whole world is going to be hard up in consequence of the bankruptcy of these nations, the inestimable destruction of property, and the loss of productive men.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Hendrick, Burton Jesse
