hard cheese

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hard cheese (countable and uncountable, plural hard cheeses)

1. A type of rennet cheese that is firm owing to the curds having been pressed or comminuted to a large degree to shed more whey and ripened for a longer time.

   Antonyms: soft cheese, cream cheese

   Hyponyms: granular cheese, stirred-curd cheese

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard,‎ cheese.

hard cheese

1. (idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.