be hard up
Example Sentences
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George laughs gruffly: “You lot must be hard up for heroes.”
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018
The finding that loneliness can be contagious also caught some readers off-guard—wouldn't lonely souls be hard up for people to infect?
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2010
It will be a parterre or a fourth-floor room, rather gloomy and rather shabby, but a possible room for a student who happens to be hard up.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
A ghost must be hard up, one would think, to visit my Puggy; there ought to be an asylum for impoverished spectres.
From Peggy by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
We are going to be hard up for cooks this year.”
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard
