English Synonyms.—Many under floored apply equally to hard-up; others are:—At low water mark; cracked up; dead-broke; down on one’s luck; fast; in Queer Street; in the last of pea time; in the last run of shad; low down; low in the lay; oofless; out of favor with the oof-bird; pebble-beached; seedy; short; sold-up; stony-broke; strapped; stuck; stumped; suffering from an attack of the week’s (or month’s) end; tight; on one’s uppers; under a cloud; on one’s beam ends. French Synonyms.—Se mettre dans le bœuf (common = to go in for block ornaments (q.v.)); être en brindezingue (mountebanks = gone to smash); être brouillé avec la monnaie (familiar = to have had a row with one’s banker); être coupé (printers’); être à la côte (familiar = on the shelf); être fauché (thieves’ = cut down); être dans la purée (thieves’); être molle (thieves’); être à la faridon (popular); être en dèche (popular); être désargenté (thieves’ = oofless); être bref (popular = short); être à fond de cale (popular = down to bed-rock); être à la manque (popular = on short commons); manger de la misère (popular = to sup sorrow); être dans le lac (popular = a hole); être pané (general); panné comme la Hollande (general = very hard up). Spanish Synonyms.—Estar pelado or ser un pelado (= skinned); tiñoso (= scabby). Italian Synonym.—Calcare a ventun ’ora. 2. (common).—Intoxicated. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed. 3. (Winchester College).—Out of countenance; exhausted (in swimming). Hard-upness or Hard-uppishness, subs. (colloquial).—Poverty; a condition of impoverishment. 1876. Hindley, Adventures of a Cheap Jack. There were frequent ... collapses from death or hard-upness. 1883. Illust. London News, 26 May, p. 519, c. 3. These I O U’s ... do not imply, as might be supposed, common hardupness. 1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 28. Ike’s knowledge of some of the bookmakers he had met in the old land led him to believe that hard-uppishness would scare any knight of the pencil away. Hardware (or Hard), subs. (American).—Counterfeit coin. 1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Hardware-bloke, subs. (thieves’).—A native of Birmingham; a Brum (q.v.). Hardy-annual, subs. (Parliamentary).—A bill that is brought in every year, but never passed into law. Hence (journalistic), any stock subject. 1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 16 Aug., p. 4, c. 2. Signs of the so called ‘silly season’ which has been somewhat delayed this year owing to the political crisis, are now beginning to appear. The readers of the Daily Telegraph are once more filling the columns of that journal with ‘Is Marriage a Failure?’ The hardy annual is called ‘English Wives’ this time. Hare, verb. (old).—To dodge; to double; to bewilder. 1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 92. Running, haring, gaping, staring. 1672. Marvell, Rehearsal, Tr. (Grosart), iii, 372. They amaze, shatter and hare their people.