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Meanings of hard put in English

Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.

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Usage of hard put in English
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We was hard put to it to save the wessel and ourselves.
A Dream of the North Sea
2
Those who don't use it are hard put to comprehend its attraction.
The Irish Times
3
Arthas was hard put not to let out a whoop of excitement.
Arthas: rise of the lich king
4
They were being hard put to it to run trains at all.
The Desert of Wheat
5
Felix, I thought, would be hard put to it to beat it.
The Story Girl
6
Still, Margaret was hard put to treat the man as a servant.
A change in altitude
7
Dwarf-mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it.
The hobbit: or there and back again
8
Further, and Tyacke would be hard put to claw away into open water.
The Only Victor
9
Cirion was hard put to it to hold the line of the Anduin.
The lord of the rings
10
They were both very hard put to it, and distressed by the heat.
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
11
Our friend the doctor was hard put to it when he wrote this.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
12
So one can understand that the Toussaints themselves are hard put.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4
13
In short, you'd be hard put to find a duller camera.
Wired
14
Yet Mrs. Blythe was hard put to it not to laugh.
Rilla of Ingleside
15
Even a Frenchman would have been hard put to it to see them.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
16
You must have been pretty hard put to it out yonder.
My Strangest Case