in dire straits

While she works part-time as a realtor - a job she said "leaves no money" - and 16-hours-a-week at an airline, she said that the combined costs of taking care of the children, rent and high prices have left her in dire straits.

It took over the world, and it even saved New York in my mind because New York was really in dire straits talking about bankruptcy.

Medical staff had particular praise for mothers who brought their infants and toddlers to be vaccinated, even if travel was difficult and dangerous or if their families were in dire straits — displaced from bombed-out homes, coping with the death or injury of loved ones, struggling to obtain the most basic necessities like food and drinking water.

“Offering false hope to those in dire straits for one’s own financial gain is contrary to a lawyer’s responsibilities,” Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona, the bar’s top prosecutor, said in a statement in response to the charges.

“They knew the company was in dire straits. They were just expediting bankruptcy by doing that.”