The basic ingredients of this sports drama look very familiar, but there's novelty in the fighting style mixed martial arts, and the fact that our opponents are two sympathetic brothers – hard-up teacher Edgerton v Afghanistan vet Hardy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
One gleaner from Aix-en-Provence explains that he lives on 90 euros a month: Istarted looking through bins because I was hard-up. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Because today, being hard-up for lunch, I went into my local Great Harvest Bread Company thinking I would get a roll or a loaf of bread of something. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And to add that not only are lawyers who look for work in other fields assumed to be slumming or hard-up or overqualified, we (collectively) assume all sorts of ridiculous things about each other. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the early decades of the 20th century, the bicycle was the vehicle of choice for hard-up British tourists. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2011)
But she dared suggest that an income just above the higher rate threshold could still leave you hard-up. ❋ Patrick Collinson (2010)
The government argues that it is not trying to make life harder for hard-up consumers but help them to change their habits. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz travels to the world's largest landfill, outside São Paulo, where he makes giant portraits of the hard-up refuse pickers out of the very trash they sort – thus turning it into expensive art. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The biggest danger, and the hardest to calculate or contain, is contagion, or the flight of panicky investors' money from other hard-up euro members. ❋ Marcus Walker (2011)
They happen to be two leading operators of pawn shops, where hard-up Americans can deposit their treasured jewelry, gadgets and even firearms—provided they are legal—in exchange for short-term loans. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Jenny is hard-up enough to let Joe stay; he's desperate enough to pay the rent. ❋ John Anderson (2011)
Whatever, it's worth watching again and I am hard-up for content. ❋ Tyler (2010)
The Obama administration has been trying to keep people in their homes by cutting their mortgages down to a size they could afford, but has succeeded in modifying relatively few, and then mostly for people so hard-up they defaulted anyway. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2010)
The best news of all for the hard-up club is that Shang is happy to play for nothing. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Mr. Pike's command to hard-up the helm, passed along from for'ard by the men he had stationed at intervals on the bridge. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Still, malnourishment isn't starvation, just as anyone who has a mobile phone isn't properly hard-up. ❋ Unknown (2012)
I will seriously proof-read comics for free, if they†™ re that hard-up for editors†¦ ❋ Unknown (2009)
I was hard up for [cash] after my [trip] to [Vegas]. ❋ Dominick (2004)
I was a [sad case] a few years ago, until I met lovely [Sandra]. :)
in those days I was so hard up that one time, I almost did it with a girl who got a ticket for streetwalking - without a [leash]! ❋ Robbie (2004)
when [ol'] jim [punched] [jason] in the face .... man that was hard up. ❋ Scalesz (2006)
"I was [hard-up] going to [beat that] [girls ass]!"
"Shoot, I hard-up told that bitch to suck my dick!"
"Oh, don't worry!!! I had that bitch hard-up crying for it!!" ❋ Greenmonkey11 (2011)
I was hard up to [ride on] the [firetruck] and [help with] the huge accident. ❋ Summery (2007)
Dave: "Alex, did you know that [we're all going to die] in three [seconds]?"
Alex: "[Fuck me hard up the arse with a stick]!" ❋ AlexBumpkin (2007)
[Kelsey]: Dude, [the project] is due tomorrow and we still don't have a topic.
[Deborah]: I don't think we need to meet or pick a topic.
Kelsey: Deborah... you're fucking up hard right now. ❋ Tryin2go2jos (2011)
"Trouble Man," by [Marvin Gaye]
"I come up hard, baby,
But now I`m cool.
I didn` make it, [sugah],
Playin' by the rules."
"The Search for Meaning: Americans Talk About What They Believe and Why," by Phillip L. [Berman]
"Hell, we come up hard . . . We were so damn poor you had to work to feed your stomeach instead of goin' to school." ❋ T. Cool (2013)
That overpainted middle-aged [hussy] [looks like] she's been rode hard and put up wet. ❋ Winsi (2004)
I just finished a 12 hour shift. I feel like I've been rode hard and put up wet.
These kids have worked my nerves! I feel like I've been rode hard and put up wet.
Related [idioms]: worked like a [Hebrew slave]; worked like a white-mouthed [mule] ❋ Almost Doctor (2014)
