Short of money (4,2)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">short of money</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for hard up that I've seen before include "Short of money - it's tough at the top" , "Having little money, almost skint" , "boracic" , "It's not easy to be in straitened circumstances" , "Informally short of money - that's tough" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">short of money</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(thesaurus)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for strapped that I've seen before include "Without, or very short of, money" , "- - for cash (hard up)" , "beaten" , "in need of money" , "whipped" .)