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	Pronounced	Usage
Timothy	['timəθi]
Stacia	-	English
Ziad	-	Arabic
FraÑSeza	-	Breton
Denis	de-NEE (French), DEN-is (English), DE-nis (German)	French, Russian, English, German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Romanian, Croatian
BÉBhionn	BAY-vin, BE-veen	Irish