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
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)
Someway, all the old-timers that are living seem to be hard up, or in bad health, or unhappy.
From In Our Town by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
"Of course you'll be hard up if you go on living in rooms like this."
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
