HARD UP DEFINITION

Sunday August 9th, 2009

HARD UP
The term for describing someone’s financial distress has nothing to do with money whatsoever. It stems from phrase used to describe the position of a ship’s helm when turned windward. Thus immense stress upon the vessel caused by this was referred to as being hard up

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