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Significados de hard up en inglés
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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Examples for "pinched"
Examples for "pinched"
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Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
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Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
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I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
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But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
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I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
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Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
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My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
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Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
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And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
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He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
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No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
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The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
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Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
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It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
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Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
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He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.
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In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious.
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Lavish in her generosity to others, she was personally frugal, even penurious.
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They were selfish and penurious, and hard-hearted and severe towards their servants.
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Are there not many in their midst who are friendless and penurious?
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He died last year and left his widow and child in straitened circumstances.
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Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable.
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He, however, is not at all sanguine, as Germany is itself in straitened circumstances.
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What if he did, in straitened circumstances, accept their aid?
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The year above mentioned, the last of that term, found the poet in straitened circumstances.
Uso de hard up en inglés
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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.