Hard-pressed

Submitted by Don Juan on 2013-12-14

Meanings of "Hard-pressed"

English

Experiencing great difficulty or distress.

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"Hard-pressed" in lyrics

FYRE - Kylian Mbappé

[Chorus]
Young champion - Kylian Mbappé
Elusive like Kylian Mbappé
Always accurate - Kylian Mbappé

David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer

A tenement, a dirty street
walked and worn by shoeless feet,
inside it's long and so complete,
watched by a shivering sun

Drake - Members Only

I know the answer
I'll take you farther than Mexico (Yeah, yeah)
You still got niggas hard pressed on you though (Yeah)
I know you, shorty a ten, but not the messy ho (Yeah)

Reba McEntire - Fancy

On the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
To say the least, we were hard pressed
Then Mama spent every last penny we had

Miqedem - I Will Praise You For You Answered Me

When hard pressed I cried out to the Lord
and he brought me into a spacious place.
I will praise you for you answered me
and have become my salvation.

Ferron - Cactus

Because there's a place where the water races wide.
And you could be hard pressed (in the muck of time)
just trying to reach the other side.

The Corries - Scotland the Brave

The Conservatives try to assure us,
Labour is hard-pressed to endure us,
The church puts limits on what we enjoy, the Government makes unemployment.

Ceza - Dark Places

Ceza, Tech N9ne!
From Turkey to Missouri
Very very dark places
Exodus, insanus, nocturnus

Marc Almond - Days of Pearly Spencer

A tenement, a dirty street
Walked and worn by shoeless feet
Inside it's long and so complete
Watched by a shivering sun

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Nightly thoughts

I pity you, unfortunate stars,
You, that are so beautiful and shine wonderfully,
Giving light to the hard-pressed fisherman,
Unrewarded by gods and by humans.

The Belonging Co - Every Victory

We will lift our eyes, we won't fear the fight
There is One who's stronger
Hard pressed on each side, we will not lose sight
Of the One who's greater

Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)

Got a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes
Hustlin' still inside of me and as far as progress
You be hard-pressed to find another rapper hot as me
I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and ya all lamed out

Ethel Cain - Thoroughfare

But now that I met you, I finally know just where I'm headin'"
And we found heaven in time where your western sunshine met my deep southern wet
And you got lost in it and yet you found yourself hard pressed for air and sweatin'

HEIZE - Dispatch

Have you ever eaten comfortably?
I'm afraid someone might recognize me
In my sight, covered by a hard-pressed hat
If you don’t see it, it means nothing

Margaret Thatcher - Speech to Conservative Party Conference 1982

Mr. President, the great economies of Germany and France, once the engine of growth of the European Community, are struggling with declining output and a growing army of unemployed. Across the Atlantic, the United States, Canada and the countries of Latin America, they have been faced with the most prolonged slump for fifty years. Even the miracle economies of the Pacific Basin—Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore—even they are now being hit.

But the economies of the Eastern bloc are in a far worse state, far worse state than the West. Poland and Romania are hard pressed to pay their debts, and the Soviet bloc countries generally are riven with shortages of everything, from seed corn to sewing thread.[fo 6]

Ry Cooder - Money Honey

Money honey (money honey), money honey (yeah)
If you gonna get along with me
Well I screamed and hollered, I was so hard-pressed
I called the woman that I love best

Elvis Presley - Money Honey

Well, I screamed and I hollered,
I was so hard-pressed
I called the woman that I loved the best

Goin' Through - Shut my mouth

Again I say the same things with a way I’m accustomed to
I ask for nothing else, just what I deserve
I don’t deserve it but however I live hard-pressed in the city
As the dreams and people get packed

Maryam Saleh - the singing of doves

the singing of the doves and the "emri" -1 on the branches , oh the branches .
inherited to my hard- pressed heart all of the sorrows, oh my eye oh my nights -2
how poor is the heart of the lover, ohhh how many days its going to suffer .

Joyner Lucas - Ross Capicchioni

[Verse 1]
Woke up at 7, my day seemed more than I prayed for
Got dressed to head out and ride to school on my skateboard
New kid in class I sat alone takin' notes while the hoodlums were makin' jokes at the clothes that my momma paid for