"hard cheese" meaning in English

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Interjection

Audio: en-au-hard cheese.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-interj}} hard cheese
  1. (idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: bad luck, hard lines, hard luck, stiff cheddar, tough luck, tough noogies
    Sense id: en-hard_cheese-en-intj-j5tkzU10

Noun

Audio: en-au-hard cheese.ogg [Australia] Forms: hard cheeses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cheeses Translations (A standard type of firm, ripe cheese): جُبْن يَابِس (jubn yābis) [masculine] (Arabic), tvrdý sýr [masculine] (Czech), kova juusto (Finnish), Hartkäse [masculine] (German), Trockenkäse [masculine] (German), ser twardy [masculine] (Polish), ser żółty [masculine] (Polish), твёрдый сыр (tvjórdyj syr) [masculine] (Russian), tvrdi sir [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tvrdi sir [masculine] (Slovene), hårdost [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-hard_cheese-en-noun-d14Uza4K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 64 2 Disambiguation of 'A standard type of firm, ripe cheese': 79 21
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, cheese. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hard_cheese-en-noun-KPpWMXwl

Inflected forms

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