noun
bad 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]
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hard cheese (informal)
Hard luck
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Main Entry: ↑cheese
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hard cheese noun (slang)
Bad luck (chiefly as interjection)
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Main Entry: ↑hard
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hard cheese,
Especially British Slang. hard luck.
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IBrit., informal used to express sympathy over a petty matter
II
n. see cheese I
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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.