hard up
Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficultiesLacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
» He is hard up for money.
Er ist knapp bei Kasse. — wolfgangth
Він на мілі. — deniko
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3 senses(colloquial)Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
на мели́na melí, без гроша́bez grošá
(colloquial)Lacking anything.
We were hard up for amusements.
(broadly, colloquial)Desperate.
Dating him? She must be hard up.
- not having enough money to pay for necessities
Examples
95 sentencesHe is hard up for money.
Він на мілі. — deniko
deEr ist knapp bei Kasse. — wolfgangth
It's hard to keep up with Tom.
З Томом важко бути на рівних. — deniko
ruЗа Томом трудно угнаться. — sharptoothed
deEs ist nicht einfach, mit Tom mitzuhalten. — raggione
I must work hard to make up for lost time.
Я повинен багато працювати, щоб нагнати втрачений час. — deniko
ruЯ должен много работать, чтобы нагнать потерянное время. — Biga
deIch muss hart arbeiten, um die verlorene Zeit aufzuholen. — MUIRIEL
I think it wouldn't be too hard to come up with a better system.
Гадаю, придумати кращу систему не було би занадто складно. — deniko
ruЯ думаю, было бы не слишком трудно придумать систему получше. — maks
deIch denke, dass es nicht allzu schwierig wäre, ein besseres System zu entwickeln. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Once you skip a lesson, it's hard to catch up with your classmates.
Якщо пропустиш лекцію, то буде важко надолужити відставання від однокласників. — ChickenKiev
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Forms
more hard up, most hard up| Comparative | more hard up Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most hard up Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
57 synonyms- not having enough money to pay for necessities:impecuniousin straitened circumstancespennilesspenuriouspinched
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.