Definition of Hard cheese

1. Noun. Bad luck.


Definition of Hard cheese

1. Interjection. (idiomatic) Expressed to someone suffering misfortune. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Cheese

hard-to-please(a)
hard-wire
hard-wired
hard-won
hard-working
hard and fast
hard as nails
hard beech
hard by
hard c
hard candy
hard case
hard cash
hard cataract
hard chancre
hard cheese (current term)
hard cider
hard coal
hard code
hard copies
hard copy
hard core
hard corn
hard count
hard currency
hard disc
hard disc drive
hard disk
hard disk drive
hard disk drives

Literary usage of Hard cheese

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"English dairy or imitation English dairy cheese is one of the modifications of the hard cheese that has been developed in recent years. ..."

2. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"These facts led Duclaux to believe this class of organisms was responsible for the ripening of the hard cheese in question. ..."

3. The Babees Book: Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans Puer Ad Mensam, The by Frederick James Furnivall (1868)
"hard cheese Fürst he wille a stomak kepe in the ... so we arc not to taste any further of old and hard Cheese, then to close up the mouth of our ..."

4. Milk by Paul Gustav Heinemann (1919)
"The size of a hard cheese is not an important matter, since microbial activity is ... But hard cheese—although frequently assumed to be indigestible— is not ..."

5. Early English Text Society by Early English Text Society (1868)
"... That as we may feed liberally of ruin cheese, and more liberally of fresh Cheese, so we are not to taste any further of old and hard Cheese, ..."

6. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology: A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in by Harry Luman Russell, Edwin George Hastings (1920)
"This type may also be divided into two groups, depending upon their texture: the hard cheese, and the soft cheese. The ordinary cheddar, the common American ..."

7. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"... yellow cheese sold in red-painted balls; Parmesan and Gorgonzola, hard cheese; Swiss, & hard cheese which is somewhat porous and filled with Swiss "eyes ..."

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