hard-up

But she dared suggest that an income just above the higher rate threshold could still leave you hard-up.

Family finances: the abuse you'll get for an income of £45,000 a year Patrick Collinson 2010

One gleaner from Aix-en-Provence explains that he lives on 90 euros a month: Istarted looking through bins because I was hard-up.

Gallic Gleaners Going Strong « Scavenging 2009

Because today, being hard-up for lunch, I went into my local Great Harvest Bread Company thinking I would get a roll or a loaf of bread of something.

2009 September « paper fruit 2009

Jenny is hard-up enough to let Joe stay; he's desperate enough to pay the rent.

Crime Comedy 'Heist' Lacks Conviction John Anderson 2011

Because today, being hard-up for lunch, I went into my local Great Harvest Bread Company thinking I would get a roll or a loaf of bread of something.

what vegans don’t eat « paper fruit 2009

The Obama administration has been trying to keep people in their homes by cutting their mortgages down to a size they could afford, but has succeeded in modifying relatively few, and then mostly for people so hard-up they defaulted anyway.

House Afire Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz travels to the world's largest landfill, outside São Paulo, where he makes giant portraits of the hard-up refuse pickers out of the very trash they sort – thus turning it into expensive art.

This week's new films 2011

The best news of all for the hard-up club is that Shang is happy to play for nothing.

Which teams are named after fictional characters? | The Knowledge | Barry Glendenning 2011

Mr. Pike's command to hard-up the helm, passed along from for'ard by the men he had stationed at intervals on the bridge.

CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010

Still, malnourishment isn't starvation, just as anyone who has a mobile phone isn't properly hard-up.

Instead of being disgusted by poverty, we are disgusted by poor people themselves | Suzanne Moore 2012