Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.
1We was hard put to it to save the wessel and ourselves.
2Those who don't use it are hard put to comprehend its attraction.
3Arthas was hard put not to let out a whoop of excitement.
4They were being hard put to it to run trains at all.
5Felix, I thought, would be hard put to it to beat it.
6Still, Margaret was hard put to treat the man as a servant.
7Dwarf-mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it.
8Further, and Tyacke would be hard put to claw away into open water.
9Cirion was hard put to it to hold the line of the Anduin.
10They were both very hard put to it, and distressed by the heat.
11Our friend the doctor was hard put to it when he wrote this.
12So one can understand that the Toussaints themselves are hard put.
13In short, you'd be hard put to find a duller camera.
14Yet Mrs. Blythe was hard put to it not to laugh.
15Even a Frenchman would have been hard put to it to see them.
16You must have been pretty hard put to it out yonder.