We were a cash-strapped park before the hurricane. Now we are an incredibly cash-strapped post-Hurricane Katrina park.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

We are financially strapped,

If you've got to have a hurricane, this is the kind of hurricane you want to have.

The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks itself, and what it does contain, In all things needful to be known is plain.

She's very scared, ... She doesn't want to be strapped down to that gurney all alone.