hard put

hard put (to do something)

and hard pressed (to do something)

able to do something only with great difficulty. I'm hard put to come up with enough money to pay the rent. I get hard put like that about once a month.

hard put

Undergoing great difficulty: Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shahrazad	-	Persian (Rare), Arabic
Gerasimos	-	Greek
Chita	CHEE-tah	Spanish
Osborne	AHZ-born	English
Harkaitz	-	Basque
Cheyanne	shie-AN	English (Modern)