hard put
adj : facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the
troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need
loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed
Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were
hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was
apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found
themselves in a bad way financially" [syn: distressed,
hard-pressed, in a bad way(p), in trouble(p)]