hard put to

hard put to do something

finding something difficult to do None of the family I was staying with spoke English and I was hard put to recall my high school French. You'd be hard put to find any other college students more deserving of the award.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Inas	-	Arabic
Myrna	MUR-na	Irish
Hannelore	HAH-ne-lo-rə	German
Hannes	HAH-nes (German), HAHN-nes (Swedish, Finnish), HAHN-nəs (Dutch)	German, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish
Inka	EENG-kah (Finnish), ING-kah (German)	Frisian, Finnish, German
Ace	[eis]