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Meanings of hard up in English
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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Examples for "pinched"
Examples for "pinched"
1
Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
2
Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
3
I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
4
But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
5
I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
1
Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
2
My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
3
Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
4
And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
5
He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
1
No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
2
The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
3
Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
4
It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
5
Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
1
He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.
2
In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious.
3
Lavish in her generosity to others, she was personally frugal, even penurious.
4
They were selfish and penurious, and hard-hearted and severe towards their servants.
5
Are there not many in their midst who are friendless and penurious?
1
He died last year and left his widow and child in straitened circumstances.
2
Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable.
3
He, however, is not at all sanguine, as Germany is itself in straitened circumstances.
4
What if he did, in straitened circumstances, accept their aid?
5
The year above mentioned, the last of that term, found the poet in straitened circumstances.
Usage of hard up in English
1
Parents were too hard up to provide any extra money, she said.
2
The wind is blowing hard up above and the waves are high.
3
Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling.
4
I took the ring because I was hard up-neededmoney at once.
5
The only thing I can think about now is being hard up.
6
I managed to get the helm hard up, and Mallet jumped inboard.
7
She had got it into her head that he was hard up.
8
Then he jerked one of his arms hard up between his shoulders.
9
But I went to room there when I was pretty hard up.
10
Then I am hard up for money, and I sell my barley.
11
Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver.
12
We heard this afternoon of a family who are pretty hard up.
13
We did not let anybody know how hard up we really were.
14
He found me well-nigh as desperately hard up as he is himself.
15
But there is no occasion for you to be hard up now.
16
I'd get one of my own only I'm so beastly hard up.