Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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Parents were too hard up to provide any extra money, she said.
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The wind is blowing hard up above and the waves are high.
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Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling.
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I took the ring because I was hard up-neededmoney at once.
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The only thing I can think about now is being hard up.
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I managed to get the helm hard up, and Mallet jumped inboard.
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She had got it into her head that he was hard up.
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Then he jerked one of his arms hard up between his shoulders.
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But I went to room there when I was pretty hard up.
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Then I am hard up for money, and I sell my barley.
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Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver.
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We heard this afternoon of a family who are pretty hard up.
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We did not let anybody know how hard up we really were.
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He found me well-nigh as desperately hard up as he is himself.
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But there is no occasion for you to be hard up now.
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I'd get one of my own only I'm so beastly hard up.