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"hard up" Definitions
  1. having very little money, especially for a short period of time
  2. hard up (for something) having nothing interesting to do, talk about, etc.

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Of those, half would have to come from hard-up families.
Seriously, were those voting on nominees that hard up for uplift?
To make matters worse, the couple's been hard up for money.
As we've reported ... June seems to be hard up for money lately.
Many of the new students are, like Mr Huamán, from hard-up families.
But that threatens to deprive over 20m hard-up Americans of health insurance.
Post-dictatorship governments have tried to boost public spending on the hard-up.
But I'm so hard up for new sports right now I'll watch ANYTHING.
"The snow is hitting pretty hard up here in Portland," Mr. Burt said.
Or, if they're feeling a bit hard up, £1,000 for a photograph with him.
For the hard-up carbonation cravers, trick your tongue by swapping in sparkling water.
The FA, which runs the grassroots side of the game in England, is hard-up.
It would also cut spending on Medicaid, the health-care programme for the hard-up.
Hard-up local authorities have struggled to do much beyond leading search-and-rescue efforts.
This means that the debt problems of hard-up companies can infect their healthier peers.
It runs a summer programme for hard-up children, providing meals and activities over the holidays.
But its removal should have gone side-by-side with more help for the hard-up.
He was so hard up for cash, he sold the notes at discount — to Huston's bank.
"Somebody rushed really hard up the field and it made me plant and come inside," Richard said.
"He was always hard up for money," Shirley Parker, 81, said in a phone interview on Monday.
"My father is in the countryside, and the family is hard up," the man, Xu Zhengming continued.
In countries where some children receive free school meals, summer means bigger grocery bills for hard-up families.
The fact that Trump insists on raising money from hard-up Republican voters implies one of two things.
The most hard-up pay nothing for membership of the programme; wealthier folk pay about $8 a year.
But for thousands of homeless people and hard-up wanderers, they have become a retreat of last resort.
"We are hard up because of higher prices of goods," she said while on her annual visit back home.
He offered some help for hard-up Britons by easing the pace of an excessively draconian squeeze of welfare.
However, this is immediately qualified and undermined by a comical voice of abjection: Basically, I'm hard up for humor.
Do you know anyone who would have gotten better grades if they had just been more hard up for cash?
Poor parts of Poland have grown visibly wealthier, says Igor Czernecki, who runs an educational charity for hard-up children.
But while river water is plentiful, hard-up farmers have no way to get enough of it to their fields.
From 2008 to 2014 the share of students who come from hard-up families has risen from 11% to 25%.
Soviet districts are generally occupied by the elderly and the hard-up, who are least able to bear the cost.
Hard-up and moderately religious, they tend to hold socially conservative views, but not to vote on the basis of them.
She claims the singer is NOT hard up for cash, and she merely helped him get out a few days early.
She says she's dirt broke, and adds ... if Robert's hard up for money she knows where he can get some quick.
"We showered at the YMCA and we were so hard-up that we only had one computer," Musk said in 2014.
Victims reported that Epstein paid them when they were hard up for cash — and paid extra when they brought new girls.
Though it remains far poorer than Bangkok, the region is not as hard-up as some other far-flung parts of Thailand.
In particular, Bloom defended Quantasia's social media post saying she's hard up for cash ... which came one week prior to the suit.
Mr. Schutz, 23, lives in a bus parked on about half an acre of vacant land hard up against the security fence.
Mrs McIver, who was 63 and president of a marketing firm, had come a long way from her hard-up childhood in Alabama.
Lurching past the nun, Sally grabbed that ankle and an arm as Patty crashed hard up against the brick wall on her left.
And it is the first of many tracks to come from the group's debut EP, Okey, released October 14 on Hard Up Records.
A hard-up, predominantly black neighbourhood on the South Side, Englewood saw a decline in murders of 44% in 2017 compared with 2016.
Akiko Kamon, a single mother of two young boys in a hard-up area of Osaka, says she struggles to feed them properly.
Hard up for money ahead of an election in 1996, President Boris N. Yeltsin tried a new tack of catering to rich insiders.
The case underlines how hard up a large swath of the population is despite Moscow's growing profile and clout on the global stage.
One of Usher's accusers, Quantasia Sharpton, proclaimed exactly one week before filing her STD lawsuit against the singer, she was hard up for cash.
Kendra Rose grew up here—on Ashburton Avenue, which divides the city's hard-up south from its middle-class north, and then on Beech.
The opposition Labour Party said the measures were "too little, too late" to help hard-up families, whose incomes have stagnated for a decade.
Infrastructure spending has been cut, and the introduction of an income support benefit for the hard-up has been put off until April 1st.
Although Lee no longer protests on the front lines, he is sympathetic to the young activists and often offers discounts to hard-up customers.
If you ever hear about me doing something like that, you can be pretty well assured that I must be pretty hard up for money.
Although the cheap local version remains the favourite tipple of hard-up young people, some Chilean pisco producers have switched to making good white wine.
Having already agreed to cancel a planned increase in fuel duty, the president went further, promising a €10bn ($11.4bn) package to help the hard-up.
Johnny Manziel could ball hard up in Canada, but don't count on him making an NFL comeback -- so says "FOX NFL Sunday" host Curt Menefee.
Unlike Brahe, who was a wealthy aristocrat, Kepler was always hard up, and he avoided working with his hands, an unlikely combination for an alchemist.
"My father is in the countryside, and the family is hard up," said Mr. Xu, a middle-aged construction laborer in Beijing, the Chinese capital.
The recession has also made it much more difficult for hard-up businesses to pay protection money ( "pizzo" in Italian) to the Mafia, Reuters said.
M5S, led by Luigi Di Maio, had pledged a guaranteed income for the hard-up; the League a low, flat rate of income and corporation tax.
The cast of characters that accumulates, from the other librarians to the townspeople to the hard-up families they serve, soon brings color to Alice's life.
At 73, Dimitra - who herself once helped the hard-up as a Red Cross food server - is among a growing number of Greeks barely getting by.
His biggest political setback was in 2005, when he failed to win a third presidential term: hard-up Iranians voted crossly for the puritanical, doctrinaire Mahmoud Ahmadinajad.
Now, with a presidential election animated by anti-establishment fervor on both sides of the political divide, the practitioners of social science are feeling particularly hard up.
Meaningful reforms—such as preventing Japan's vast, quasi-statist system of farm co-operatives from gouging hard-up farmers with high prices for farm supplies—are stalling.
With Trump and Cruz fighting for the nomination, Democrats and Obama should drive the ball hard up the middle and quit trying to be cute and clever.
That allowed the hard-up nobles to issue, in 22019, the first Pfandbrief: a tradable bond, secured on individual properties and the assets of the whole Landschaft.
And you've touched on the main questions here: In patronizing a pawnshop, are you helping sustain a system that exploits the hard up or even abets thievery?
To make matters worse, the couple has seemingly been hard up for money -- June recently pawned a diamond ring and sold her house for way under value.
Moreover, Roma education levels are low: in Greece, whose Roma community is particularly hard-up, 42% of 16- to 24-year-olds have not completed any formal schooling.
Peru and Colombia have both introduced schemes aimed at students who are both hard-up and clever, which look to be a more effective use of public money.
Brett Herron, a city councillor on the mayoral committee for transport, says that hard-up households in Cape Town spend on average 40% of their income on transport.
The Economist could have erected a two- or three-storey building hard up against St James's Street, a grand thoroughfare, and popped a tower out of the top.
It would have slashed Medicaid—government-provided medical insurance for the hard-up, which was expanded under Obamacare—and abolished a stipulation that everyone must have medical coverage.
While Google is in no way hard up for cash, Fortnite Battle Royale for Android certainly represented the potential for a relatively big revenue stream for an app.
He helped out hard-up families at the Presbyterian church, and brought household goods to the two-bedroom apartment he shared with his 77-year-old mother, Amanda.
I recently started using a dark spot corrector for some pigmentation on my face, but it's really hard up here in the Aussie sun to protect your skin!
It is widely said that the "liberal elite" cannot possibly understand the changes through which it is living because it does not understand the hard-up strivers driving them.
A journalist in Ajaccio points out the difficulties: whereas wealthy Catalonia generates 19% of Spain's GDP, Corsica is isolated and hard-up, accounting for less than 1% of France's.
"We are concerned about 2019 and I think that was why we worked so hard up through the omnibus package and pushing as hard as we did," Eyles said.
A rare wobble in Mrs Merkel's campaign came at a live discussion with voters when she was confronted by Petra Vogel, a low-paid cleaner facing a hard-up retirement.
Whilst his boxing career was drawing to its close, a hard up Liston had been working as a henchman/enforcer for Robert Chudnick, a kleptomaniac jazz musician turned drug dealer.
The industry plays an important role in providing an opportunity to quickly access cash when hard up, or during periods of unemployment, to roughly 2628 million people with poor credit.
One question that comes up often with reverse mortgage deliberations (or ought to at least) is this: If you are so hard up for money, shouldn't you just sell and downsize?
That's when Dennis dropped the bombshell, saying that Madonna was so hard up to have his baby at the time, that she was willing to shell out BIG CASH for progeny.
Still, this category is packed with powerhouse social-issues dramas, and the favorite has to be "American Factory," which chronicles a culture clash between Chinese industrialists and hard-up American workers.
Englewood, a hard-up, predominantly black neighbourhood on the South Side, saw a decline in murders of 44% and a drop in shootings of 43% in 2017 compared with the previous year.
For example, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has backed Acelero Learning, an early-years education firm, and Revolution Foods, a company in California that serves healthy lunches in schools in hard-up areas.
When high schooler Kate* was hard up for money, she took a seemingly easy job as a hostess at a nightclub in Mong Kok, Hong Kong's grittier, neon-soaked red light district.
It's not a good sign that Helfrich is so hard-up for a quarterback that, for the second year in a row, he summoned an FCS graduate transfer to helm his offense.
"A lot of the Himalayan experts said the ice is so hard up high, you can't throw your ice ax down into the snow so you cannot stop if you fall," Weihenmayer says.
Spending on "social protection", such as pensions, unemployment insurance and assistance for the hard-up, has risen from an average of about 5% of GDP in rich countries in 1960 to 20% today.
Now that there are a lot of good gaming laptop options at the $999 mark, you'd need to be pretty hard up for cash to go for one of these cheaply built machines.
It began when her father, a South Bronx native, died while she was studying at Boston University, leaving the family hard up -- this was during the financial crisis -- to keep their suburban home.
It went down at a charity game in DC a few years back when Rawlings stole the ball from KD, then pushed the rock hard up the court to drain a smooth three.
Indeed, some of these schools were even tied to our president, like the troublesome for-profit Trump University, which separated many hard-up aspirants from their money (and was later sued and settled).
People from the surrounding community, including young activists with the Democratic Socialists of America, came to the strike line every day to offer moral support, pizza, firewood and groceries for hard-up families.
But the Chinese left's broader message of muscular nationalism and its criticism of widening inequality have reverberated, especially among retirees, hard-up workers and former party officials dismayed by extravagant wealth and corruption.
Its own increasingly affluent society, with a middle class approaching half a billion mark, is a huge bargaining chip to smash trade shenanigans of hard-up foreign producers desperately looking for large and growing sales opportunities.
Nor does it explain why the vast majority of hard-up strivers in America who happen not to be white voted for Hillary Clinton (or even acknowledge that she won the popular vote by over 2.5m votes).
If you're hard up and in the market for a tablet-come-laptop, you might be interested in the latest additions to Acer's Switch range: 10-inch tablets with plug-in keyboards that are pretty damn cheap.
It's true that the company has been running the factory hardup to 60 hours a week with mandatory overtime, six days in a row — and some absenteeism could be due to sheer exhaustion, Mr. Roell allowed.
It's unlikely Mayo is hard up for the cash since he reportedly made $45 MILLION during his 8 years in the NBA before getting hit with a ban for violating the league's anti-drug policy in 2016.
"He understands that right now the spotlight is on him, but he really wants the focus to be on the firefighters and the other first-responders who are working so hard up there, battling these fires," she adds.
Donald Dement, a volunteer leader with his sons' Boy Scout troop in Frisco, Texas, said most of the parents would have no trouble affording the higher fees, while hard-up families would likely get assistance from their troops.
Sanders," Clinton said at a campaign event in Nashua, N.H. She said her campaign will be "bringing all that energy, excitement, and determination to New Hampshire where we're going to work hard up until the primary next week.
Then, while watching a program about the Rwandan genocide, Mr. Pearson had a revelation that slammed hard up against his church's doctrine, which maintained that non-Christians were destined for hell unless they professed their belief in Jesus.
Compared with class, affirmative action based solely on race seems awfully blunt in today's America: it would be hard to claim that the son of black millionaires was more deserving of special consideration than the daughter of hard-up white coalminers.
The deep recession has made it much more difficult for hard-up businesses to pay protection money, or "pizzo" in Italian, to the Mafia and more than 1,000 firms have revolted against paying that in Palermo alone in little more than a decade.
Danno told me that it felt like he was being asked to indulge the whims of a rich guy locked into a bizarre feud, but he was also hard up for cash and didn't really see the harm in taking a picture.
BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Formula One is close to a solution that would allow hard-up private teams to secure cheaper engines from the sport's four manufacturers without the need for an alternative supplier, FIA president Jean Todt said on Friday.
In this modern staging, performed in the round in a vaulted Chelsea church that serves hot lunches to the hard-up, Amahl (Devin Zamir Coleman, pictured on previous page) and his mother (Aundi Marie Moore, a soprano) live in a homeless shelter.
Certainly, there is looting going on in the city—there are too many serious issues for police to spend time guarding sneakers at the mall or electronics at rental stores, and there is always someone hard up enough to think about commodity goods rather than fresh water.
Prosecutors and the police now say that this death, in Shandong Province in 24, was one of many in which a sophisticated network of grifters dispatched isolated, hard-up men, some mentally impaired, and dressed up their deaths as accidents to swindle compensation from mine owners.
On the terraced Victorian streets of SW16, Mr Khan was just "Sadiq", the guy from the neighbouring constituency; the machine politician who had made Tooting—a mix of hard-up estates and comfortable suburbs—relatively safe for Labour when a lesser practitioner might have lost it to the Conservatives.
Mr. Tabach-Bank said it's not uncommon for people to take their Birkins, or other valuables, in and out of the pawnshop, using them like a credit card, whether it's for an investment opportunity, for paying off business fees or simply because they are hard up for cash.
It was a good location, hard up against the narrowest stretch of the ASEAN buffer zone, with good transportation options to most of the American-administered eastern half of the capital, and close to the Yasukuni Shrine, which everyone expected to be a flash point one day or the next.
In the next breath will tell you why they're Uber drivers, which is that they're hard up for cash and for many reasons and they like that Uber gives them the ability to get it quickly and to do it when they want to do it, which is no trivial thing.
She dreams instead of college on the east coast, to have a name different from the one her parents picked for her and to live in a big blue house with white shutters on the "right" side of the train tracks—rather than the modest dwellings her hard-up parents are able to afford.
If you've been hard up for "Game of Thrones" content since the most recent season ended in 2017, you could do worse than "Khal Drogo's Ghost Dojo," a public access TV show where "we talk with some of the hundreds of characters from 'Game of Thrones' who have been killed off the show," as Thompson, a co-host, explained.

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