- hard cheese
- nounbad luck• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain• Hypernyms: ↑misfortune, ↑bad luck, ↑tough luck, ↑ill luck
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Slang.an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.[1875-80]* * *
hard cheese (informal)Hard luck• • •Main Entry: ↑cheese————————hard cheese noun (slang)Bad luck (chiefly as interjection)• • •Main Entry: ↑hard* * *
hard cheese,Especially British Slang. hard luck.* * *
IBrit., informal used to express sympathy over a petty matterIIn. see cheese I* * *
ˌhard ˈcheese idiom(BrE, informal) used as a way of saying that you are sorry about sth, usually ↑ironically (= you really mean the opposite)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.