hard up(s = adj.all) impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched - not having enough money to pay for necessities;

N  difficulty, hardness, impracticability, tough work, hard work, uphill work, hard task, Herculean task, Augean task, task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift, dilemma, embarrassment, deadlock, perplexity, intricacy, entanglement, complexity, cross fire, awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze, coil, crooked path, involvement, nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point, vexed question, vexata quaestio, poser, puzzle, paradox, hard nut to crack, nut to crack, bone to pick, crux, pons asinorum, where the shoe pinches, nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt, critical situation, crisis, trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble, scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest, sea of troubles, peck of troubles, pretty kettle of fish, pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado, false position, set fast, stand, standstill, deadlock, dead set, fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac, hitch, stumbling block, crab, curmudgeon, difficult, not easy, hard, tough, troublesome, toilsome, irksome, operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable, sooner said than done, more easily said than done, easier said than done, difficult to deal with, hard to deal with, ill-conditioned, crabbed, crabby, not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water, awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable, intractable, stubborn, perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged, knotted, knotty, invious, pathless, trackless, labyrinthine, intricate, complicated, impracticable, not feasible, desperate, embarrassing, perplexing, delicate, ticklish, critical, beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties, under a difficulty, in a box, in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape, in deep water, in a fine pickle, in extremis, between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis, surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands, at cross purposes, not out of the wood, reduced to straits, hard pressed, sorely pressed, run hard, pinched, put to it, straitened, hard up, hard put to it, hard set, put to one's shifts, puzzled, at a loss, at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill, graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground, stuck fast, set fast, up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall, au bout de son Latin, out of one's depth, thrown out, accomplished with difficulty, hard-fought, hard-earned, with difficulty, with much ado, barely, hardly, uphill, against the stream, against the grain, d rebours, invita Minerva, in the teeth of, at a pinch, upon a pinch, at long odds, against long odds, ay there's the rub, hic labor hoc opus, things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti, ad astra per aspera, acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.

N  poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, need, neediness, lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door, bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances, slender means, narrow means, straits, hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity, beggary, mendicancy, mendicity, broken fortune, loss of fortune, insolvency, empty pocket, empty purse, light purse, beggarly account of empty boxes, poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling, pauvre diable, fakir, schnorrer, homeless person, poor, indigent, poverty-stricken, badly off, poorly off, ill off, poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job, fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless, unportioned, unmoneyed, impecunious, out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash, without a rap, not worth a rap, qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up, out at elbows, out at heels, seedy, bare-footed, beggarly, beggared, destitute, fleeced, stripped, bereft, bereaved, reduced, homeless, in want, needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened, put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts, unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet, embarrassed, under hatches, involved, insolvent, in forma pauperis, zonam perdidit, a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree, a pobreza no hay verguenza, he that is down can fall no lower, poca roba poco pensiero, steeped, in poverty to the very lips, the short and simple annals of the poor.

act up, add up, ante up, back up, backed up, ball up, balled up, bang up, bear up, beat up, beef up, beefed up, belly up, belt up, bind up, blaze up, block up, blow up, blowing up, blown up, board up, bob up, bollix up, bollixed up, bollocks up, bolster up, bomb up, bone up, book up, boost up, botch up, bottle up, bound up, box up, brace up, break up, brick up, bridle up, bring up, bringing up, brisk up, bristle up, brush up, bubble up, buck up, bucked up, build up, bump up, bunch up, bundle up, buoy up, burn up, bust up, butter up, button up, buy up, call up, carve up, cast up, catch up, catch up with, caught up, caught up in, chain up, chalk up, charge up, chat up, check up on, cheer up, chew up, chin up, chirk up, chock up, choke up, choose up, chop up, chuck up the sponge, chum up, churn up, clam up, clap up, clean up, clear up, climb up, clock up, clog up, close up, cloud up, clouding up, clutter up, cobble up, cock up, come up, come up against, come up to, conjure up, cook up, coop up, cork up, cotton up, cough up, coughing up, couple up, cover up, cozy up, crack up, crank up, crap up, creep up, crock up, crop up, curl up, curled up, cut up, dam up, deck up, die hard, dig up, digging up, dish up, divided up, divvy up, do up, doctor up, doll up, dolled up, done up, dope up, double up, drag up, draw up, dream up, dredge up, dress up, dried up, drink up, drive up, drive up the wall, drum up, dry up, drying up, dummy up, earth up, ease up, eat up, edge up, end up, even up, face up, face up to, faggot up, fake up, fancied up, fancy up, fatten up, fed up, felt up, fess up, fetch up, fig up, fill up, finish up, fire up, firm up, fix up, flame up, flare up, fluff up, fog up, fold up, follow up, follow up on, foot up, fork up, fort up, foul up, frame up, freshen up, fuck up, furbish up, gang up, gang up on, gas up, gather up, gear up, get up, ginger up, give up, giving up, glam up, go up, go up in smoke, gobble up, grow up, grown up, grub up, gum up, gummed up, gussied up, gussy up, ham it up, hang up, hard, hard and fast, hard beech, hard candy, hard cash, hard cheese, hard cider, hard clam, hard coal, hard copy, hard core, hard currency, hard disc, hard disk, hard drink, hard drive, hard drug, hard earned, hard feelings, hard fern, hard fought, hard goods, hard grass, hard hat, hard job, hard knocks, hard labor, hard lead, hard life, hard line, hard liquor, hard news, hard palate, hard pressed, hard put, hard right, hard rock, hard roe, hard roll, hard rubber, hard rush, hard sauce, hard sell, hard shoulder, hard solder, hard steel, hard stuff, hard surface, hard tick, hard time, hard times, hard to please, hard water, hard wheat, hard wired, hard worker, hash up, haul up, head up, heap up, heat up, heated up, heave up, heft up, held up, het up, high up, higher up, hike up, hit it up, hit up, hitch up, hive up, hoke up, hold up, hole up, hook up, hook up with, hop up, hopped up, hot up, hung up, hurry up, hush up, hype up, ice up, jack up, jazz up, jolly up, juice up, jump up, jumping up and down, keep up, kept up, key up, keyed up, kick up, kink up, kit up, knock up, lace up, laid up, land up, lap up, laugh it up, lay up, lead up, let up, lift up, light up, lighten up, limber up, line up, lined up, link up, live it up, live up to, liven up, load up, lock up, log up, look up, look up to, looking up, loosen up, louse up, made up, make up, make up one's mind, make up to, mark up, mat up, matte up, measure up, measure up to, meet up with, mess up, messed up, mix up, mixed up, mock up, mop up, mount up, mount up to, move up, muck up, mucked up, muddy up, muffle up, mug up, muster up, offer up, open up, own up, pal up, pass up, patch up, pay up, pen up, pent up, pep up, perk up, perked up, pick up, pick up the gauntlet, pile up, pin up, pipe up, play up, play up to, plump up, point up, polish up, pony up, pop up, pound up, prang up, pretty up, prick up, prim up, prop up, propping up, psych up, psyched up, puff up, puffed up, pull up, pull up short, pull up stakes, pumped up, push up, put up, put up job, put up to, put up with, queue up, rachet up, rack up, raise up, rake up, ramp up, rev up, rig up, ring up, rip up, rise up, roll up, rope up, rough up, round up, rout up, rub up, ruck up, ruffle up, run up, runner up, sack up, save up, saved up, scale up, scare up, scoop up, scrape up, scratch up, screw up, scrub up, scrunch up, seal up, sell up, serve up, set up, sew up, sex up, shack up, shake up, shape up, shine up, shine up to, shoot up, shore up, shoring up, show up, shown up, shrivel up, shut up, sidle up, sign up, silt up, sit up, size up, slack up, slice up, slick up, slicked up, slip up, slow up, slurp up, smarten up, smash up, smell up, snap up, snarl up, snatch up, sneak up, soak up, soaking up, soar up, sober up, soften up, sop up, soup up, speak up, speak up for, spear up, speed up, speeded up, spice up, spiff up, spiffed up, spirit up, spit up, split up, sponge up, spring up, spruce up, spruced up, square up, stack up, stand up, stand up for, stand up to, start up, stay up, steam up, steamed up, step up, stick up, stick up for, stink up, stir up, stirred up, stop up, stopped up, stored up, straighten up, strike hard, strike up, string up, stuck up, suck up, suck up to, sum up, summing up, summon up, sunny-side up, swallow up, sweep up, swell up, swept up, swoop up, swot up, take up, take up arms, take up with, taken up, tart up, team up, tear up, tee up, tense up, think up, throw up, tidy up, tie up, tied up, tier up, tighten up, tog up, togged up, tone up, toss up, tot up, tote up, touch up, touch up paint, trice up, trick up, trip up, true up, trump up, trumped up, tune up, turn up, turn up the heat, turn up the pressure, turned up, tying up, up, up and down, up country, up here, up in arms, up in the air, up on, up quark, up the stairs, up to, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to my neck, up to now, up to our necks, up to their necks, up to your neck, use up, used up, using up, vamp up, vomit up, wake up, waking up, wall up, warm up, wash up, washed up, well up, whip up, whomp up, whoop it up, wind up, wipe up, wise up, work up, worked up, wound up, wrack up, wrap up, wrapped up, wrapped up in, write up, wrought up, yield up, zip up