Sentence examples similar to I'm hard up from inspiring English sources

4) One time I was hard up for cash, so I asked my good friend if she knew of anyone who was hiring so that I could pick up a second job.

'I was hard-up at the time and it cheered me.

"I know that Harvard is hard up after last year (though only in comparison to Harvard in other years), but this seems absurd," Mr. Kinsley wrote in an e-mail message, referring to the 30percentt drop in the university's endowment.

She is hard up.

"But he was hard up.

Life was hard up north.

"Didn't know you were hard up".

I'm hard pressed to come up with a rap duo with better flow or vocabulary— who else rhymes "gratuitous"  in a song about slinging blow?

In fact, I'm hard-pressed to come up with an ecommerce model she's ripping off from the US.

A rep described the resistance as feeling something akin to walking under water, and I'm hard-pressed to come up with a better analogy.

But I'm hard-headed and shall not give up...