hard up

Adjective

 * 1)  Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
 * 2) * 1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On being hard up
 * I can speak with authority on the subject of being hard up. I have been a provincial actor. If further evidence be required, which I do not think likely,
 * 1)  Lacking anything.
 * 2)  Desperate.
 * 1)  Desperate.
 * 1)  Desperate.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Polish:, bez grosza, , goły i wesoły
 * Russian:, без гроша́
 * Serbo-Croatian: шворц

Verb

 * 1)  (to become or make hard)