1.
If you are ~ for something such as time or money, you do not have enough of it. (BRIT INFORMAL; in AM, use pressed for )
He’s going to be a bit ~ for money.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ for n
2.
If you are hard ~ to do something, you find it very difficult to do it. (BRIT)
I’d be hard ~ to teach him anything.
= hard-pressed
PHRASE: V inflects