be hard up (for sth)
to not have enough of something important or valuable:
If you're so hard up for friends, why don't you join a club?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lacking things
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- bereft
- catch
- cry out for sth
- cupboard
- demand
- hole
- lacking
- need
- need sth like you need a hole in the head idiom
- needful
- needy
- short
- take
- the cupboard is bare idiom
- the UN
- unsatisfied
- vacuum
- want
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