hard cheese
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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 edit
A standard type of firm, ripe cheese
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Interjection edit
- (idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.