be hard-pressed

To struggle to do or accomplish something, especially because it seems impossible. You'll be hard-pressed to find a better guy than Bill. Come on—if we don't leave soon, we'll be hard-pressed to get there on time.

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

hard pressed
hard-pressed
hard-pressed to (do something)
a committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours
group
back to the wall, with one's
come through (something) with flying colors
pass with flying colors
pass with flying colours
with flying colors, pass with

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One would be hard-pressed to acquire a major asset Downtown for under $60 psf in today's market.

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Many end up in museum lobbies, but one would be hard-pressed to make a case for them as "institutional critique," a "genre" that itself is rapidly becoming an obligatory form of spectacle (the fact that MOMA hung its own survey of this cottage industry, "Museum as Muse," is the kiss of death).

SUM AND THE PARTS

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释义	be hard-pressed be hard-pressed To struggle to do or accomplish something, especially because it seems impossible. You'll be hard-pressed to find a better guy than Bill. Come on—if we don't leave soon, we'll be hard-pressed to get there on time. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: hard pressed hard-pressed hard-pressed to (do something) a committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours group back to the wall, with one's come through (something) with flying colors pass with flying colors pass with flying colours with flying colors, pass with References in periodicals archive One would be hard-pressed to acquire a major asset Downtown for under $60 psf in today's market. The anatomy of the Downtown Revitalization Plan, Part 2 Any mutual fund manager who watched his portfolio decline by 33 percent in a single quarter could point to "the inner dragon" that forced him to "confront his own shadow." People who regularly are interrupted at work by their inner dragons don't have time to read publications such as Value Line or Barron's or Investor's Daily, and would probably be hard-pressed to keep their eyes on the Quotron machine. Is this a man's world? Many end up in museum lobbies, but one would be hard-pressed to make a case for them as "institutional critique," a "genre" that itself is rapidly becoming an obligatory form of spectacle (the fact that MOMA hung its own survey of this cottage industry, "Museum as Muse," is the kiss of death). SUM AND THE PARTS
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