hard times

His warm smile gave no hint of the hard times he faced in Miami’s rough Liberty City neighborhood.

Jeanne de la Motte, a noblewoman fallen on hard times, pretended to be French Queen and tricked a cardinal into giving her the necklace, without paying.

So many people are experiencing hard times in this country.

It’s a welcome diversion in a place — “town” is too generous a word — that has reverted to hard times.

"But the girls understood how I felt and even in the middle of the night we'd all be up messaging each other to help get through the hard times," she adds.