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Exact Match:

hard up

not having enough money to pay for necessities

Synonyms:

• badly off,
• desperate,
• distressed,
• down to bedrock,
• embarrassed,
• feeling the pinch,
• hard pressed,
• ill off,
• impecunious,
• in Queer Street,
• in desperate straits,
• in extremis,
• in extremities,
• in narrow circumstances,
• in reduced circumstances,
• in straitened circumstances,
• land-poor,
• narrow,
• on the edge,
• out of pocket,
• pinched,
• poor,
• poorly off,
• reduced,
• short,
• short of cash,
• short of funds,
• short of money,
• sorely pressed,
• squeezed,
• straitened,
• strapped,
• unmoneyed,
• unprosperous,
• up against it