hard cheese

hard cheese
noun Date: 1861 chiefly British tough luck — often used interjectionally

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  • hard cheese — (UK) Hard cheese means hard luck …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • Hard cheese! — Hard/Tough cheese! British & Australian, informal, Australian, informal something that you say to or about someone to whom something bad has happened in order to show that you have no sympathy for them. So he s fed up because he s got to get up… …   New idioms dictionary

  • hard cheese — ► hard cheese Brit. informal, dated used to express sympathy over a petty matter. Main Entry: ↑cheese …   English terms dictionary

  • hard cheese — noun bad luck • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑misfortune, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • hard cheese — (UK)    Hard cheese means hard luck.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Hard cheese —   (UK)   Hard cheese means hard luck …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • hard cheese — Slang. an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It s hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days. [1875 80] * * * …   Universalium

  • hard cheese — kietasis sūris statusas Aprobuotas sritis pieno produktai apibrėžtis Sūris, kurio sausosios neriebalinės medžiagos drėgnis (SNMD) paprastai yra ne mažesnis kaip 47 proc., bet ne didesnis kaip 55 proc., pvz., čedaris, ementalis. atitikmenys: angl …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • hard cheese Brit. — hard cheese Brit. informal, dated used to express sympathy over a petty matter. → hard …   English new terms dictionary

  • hard cheese — interjection Expressed to someone suffering misfortune. Syn: bad luck, hard lines, hard luck, stiff cheddar, tough luck, tough noogies …   Wiktionary

  • hard cheese — n. cheese of a firm consistency; (Slang) interj. (Slang) bad luck, tough luck, difficult time …   English contemporary dictionary

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