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hard put
adjective
In a situation that is difficult to resolve.
Exact(53)
I am hard put to see where this ever happened.
On paper, he might then be hard put to survive.
I was hard put not to burst out laughing".
Palestinians would be hard put to match such cumulative blunders.
"He's going to be hard put to prove that allegation.
We would still be hard put to explain why.
Similar(5)
He sings: She was so hot I was hard-put To be polite.
Ms. Levine was hard-put to choose just one or two.
'But you'd be hard-put to get a doctor to admit to it.
Even with that buildup, the United States will be hard-put to keep the South China Sea open by itself.
Poland was accused of being an accomplice of Nazi Germany – a charge that Warsaw was hard-put to deny.
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