hard up
wordnet sense
Web Definitions:
- not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Lacking money, impecunious, in financial difficulties
- Hard is another often used nautical term. To put the helm hard over is to put it as far as it will go in that direction. Hard and fast describes a vessel firmly aground and unable to make progress and has come ashore to mean rigid. ...
- To move the tiller hard to weather.