be hard up

The two cross-talk actors must be hard up for ideas, since there were only old punch-lines in their show.

那两个相声演员恐怕已经黔驴技穷了，表演中只有些老包袱。

idiom To be 'hard up' is an English idiom.

成语，惯用语风势已减。

I do envy you urban residents, never till the land, but never be hard up(suffer the famine).

我真羡慕你们居民，不种田却从不闹饥荒。

Reason and counter measure of capital be hard up in enterprise

浅谈企业资金紧张的成因及其对策

and they thought i might just be hard up enough to oblige

他们以为我拮据到了一定会感激涕零的地步