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Hard-pressed   /hɑrd-prɛst/   Listen
Hard-pressed

adjective
1.
Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.  Synonyms: distressed, hard put, in a bad way.  "Financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices" , "We were hard put to meet the mortgage payment" , "Found themselves in a bad way financially"






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"Hard-pressed" Quotes from Famous Books



... in baskets up a ladder to the waiting engine and emptying it into the fender. And now, after parting company with my fellow-traveller at Hamburg, I was nearing the land where once more I should see old Dannebrog, the flag that fell from heaven with victory to the hard-pressed Danes. Literally out of the sky it fell in their sight, the historic fact being apparently that the Christian bishops had put up a job with the Pope to wean the newly converted Danes away from their heathen pirate flag and ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... of my own safety, that you should not make known the author publicly. You cannot appreciate these fears [in England]. You have no idea what it is to be surrounded by a community of Mormons, guided by a leader the most unprincipled." We have seen how hard-pressed Smith was for money with which to meet his obligations for the payment of land purchased. It was not necessary that a newcomer should be a Mormon in order to buy a lot, special emphasis being laid on the freedom of ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... count on it sometimes as many rings of annual growth as on a lordly Scotch fir-tree. But where? Why, underground. For see how cunning it is, this little stunted descendant of proud forest lords: hard-pressed by nature, it has learnt to make the best of its difficult and precarious position. It has a woody trunk at core, like all other trees; but this trunk never appears above the level of the soil: it creeps and roots underground ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen

... foreseen—the downfall of his firm through the Napoleonic rascality of Ward. General Grant was utterly ruined; he was left without income and apparently without the means of earning one. It was the period when the great War Series was appeasing in the Century Magazine. General Grant, hard-pressed, was induced by the editors to prepare one or more articles, and, finding that he could write them, became interested in the idea of a book. It is unnecessary to repeat here the story of how the publication of this important ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain



Words linked to "Hard-pressed" :   troubled



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