Home US English hard cheese

Definition of hard cheese in English:

hard cheese

Translate hard cheese into Spanish

phrase

informal British

  • Used to express sympathy over a petty matter.

    • ‘Of course, I trust them implicitly, just as I trust all experts with letters after their names, so I rang the Vat helpline. They said hard cheese, your accountants are right.’
    • ‘Your obnoxious politician was quoted in an American blog as saying: ‘America is going to do what it likes or hard cheese.’’
    • ‘This is hard cheese for many producers across the EU.’
    • ‘But if protecting them means doing or allowing harm to us, if it really is ‘us or them’, then hard cheese on them.’
    • ‘And that was just hard cheese for particle physicists, and for many years the best people worked on quantum gravity to no avail.’