hard cheese
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Noun
edithard 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
editA standard type of firm, ripe cheese
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Interjection
edit- (idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.
Synonyms
edit- bad luck
- hard lines
- hard luck
- stiff cheddar
- tough break
- tough cookie
- tough cookies (plural)
- tough luck
- tough noogies
- (vulgar) tough titty/tough titties
- tough toenails
- tough toodles
- (also vulgar) tough shit