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be hard put

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be hard put to do something
if you are hard put to do something, it is not likely that you will be able to do it. You'd be hard put to find a better school for your kids. She'll be hard put to buy her own home on what she earns.
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When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.
 
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