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hard-pressed

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[hahrd-prest]

adjective

  1. heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.

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hard-pressed

adjective

  1. in difficulties

    the swimmer was hard-pressed

  2. subject to severe competition

  3. subject to severe attack

  4. closely pursued

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hard-pressed1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Idioms and Phrases

Overburdened, put upon, as in With all these bills to pay we find ourselves hard pressed. [c. 1800]
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"Extra investment in public transport must also focus on cutting fares for hard-pressed families being clobbered by a cost of living crisis."

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And given budget constraints, California will be hard-pressed to do more for caregivers and those who need care.

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Scottish Conservative finance spokesman Craig Hoy said: "The black hole the SNP have overseen in local authority budgets means hard-pressed taxpayers are now paying more and more but getting less and less in return."

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Their economic impact is obvious, and the Golden State would be hard-pressed to keep our status as a world-competing financial power without their labor.

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It is an enormous and risky pivot, for the character and the story; if viewers don’t believe this scene, they will be hard-pressed to accept the Aunt Lydia of “The Testaments.”

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