hard up
[ ˌhɑːd ˈʌp ]
• short of money.
• "I'm too hard up to buy fancy clothes"
Similar:
poor,
short of money,
short of cash,
impoverished,
impecunious,
in financial difficulties,
financially embarrassed,
financially distressed,
in reduced circumstances,
in straitened circumstances,
unable to make ends meet,
penniless,
moneyless,
destitute,
poverty-stricken,
bankrupt,
in the red,
without a sou,
without means of support,
broke,
flat broke,
bust,
stony broke,
skint,
cleaned out,
strapped for cash,
on one's uppers,
in Queer Street,
on one's beam-ends,
without a shot in one's locker,
without a brass farthing,
stone broke,
without a red cent,
