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hard cheese

noun

, Slang.

an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation:
It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.

hard cheese

First recorded in 1875–80

In the evening dont take cream, strawberries, or junket, unless you eat hard cheese with them.

It is a very hard cheese, and therefore suitable for grating.

Of course, some similar hard cheese could be used if desired, but the kind mentioned is recommended for the sake of economy.

The retailer frequently buys hard cheese by the ton, not by the cheese or by the box.

Certain varieties of hard cheese of foreign origin are now made to some extent in this country.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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