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hard up
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Synonyms:

poverty-stricken, in the lower income brackets, poor , badly off, feeling the pinch, hard pressed, in queer street, impecunious, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, short , short of cash, short of funds, short of money, strapped

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