hard pressed

Overburdened, put upon, as in With all these bills to pay we find ourselves hard pressed. [c. 1800]

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Reilly	['raili]
Tal'at	-	Arabic
Ziegler	['zi:glə]
&Aelig;Thelric	-	Anglo-Saxon (Latinized)
Branimir	-	Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovene
Joanna	jo-AN-ə (English), yaw-AHN-nah (Polish)	English, Polish, Biblical