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hard put, be
hard put, be
Find something very difficult, as in The show was so bad that I was hard put to conceal my dismay, or Manufacturers will be hard put to meet the new standards. [c. 1700]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Rut | | ROOT (Spanish) | Spanish, Icelandic, Swedish, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew |
| Krystian | | KRIST-yahn | Polish |
| Andrey | | ahn-DRYAY (Russian) | Russian, Bulgarian |
| Ceri (1) | | KE-ri | Welsh |
| Mihael | | - | Slovene, Croatian |
| PŘEmysl | | - | Czech |