hard up

[hard up] {adj.}, {informal} Without enough money or some other needed thing.

* /Dick was hard up and asked Lou to lend him a dollar./

* /The campers were hard up for water because their well had run dry./

Compare: UP AGAINST IT.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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