hard cheese

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

hard cheese (countable and uncountable, plural hard cheeses)

1. 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

2. 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

1. (idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.

Synonyms

• 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