hard cheese

English

Pronunciation

(interjection)
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Noun

hard cheese (countable and uncountable, plural hard cheeses)

A type of rennet cheese that is firm owing to the curds having been pressed or comminuted to a large degree to shed more whey and ripened for a longer time.
Antonyms: soft cheese, cream cheese

Hyponyms: granular cheese, stirred-curd cheese
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard,‎ cheese.

Translations

A standard type of firm, ripe cheese

Arabic: جُبْن يَابِس m (jubn yābis)
Czech: tvrdý sýr m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kova juusto
German: Hartkäse (de) m, Trockenkäse m
Polish: ser twardy m, ser żółty m
Russian: твёрдый сыр m (tvjórdyj syr)
Serbo-Croatian: tvrdi sir m
Slovene: tvrdi sir m
Swedish: hårdost (sv) c
Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Interjection

hard cheese

(idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.

Synonyms

bad luck
hard lines
hard luck
stiff cheddar
tough luck
tough noogies
tough toenails
tough toodles
tough cookie
tough cookies (plural)
(vulgar) tough shit, tough titty/tough titties

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