cheese

*cheesed off

Sl. angry; disgusted. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; get someone ~.) Clare was really cheesed off at the waiter. The waiter was cheesed off at the cook.

cheese someone off

Sl. to make someone very angry. You sure know how to cheese Laurel off. Bobby cheesed off every person in the club.

cut the cheese and cut the mustard

Sl. to release intestinal gas. (Crude. Use caution with the topic.) Who cut the cheese? People who cut the mustard in the car have to get out and walk.

See also: cut

Say cheese!

Inf. an expression used by photographers to get people to smile, which they must do while saying the word heese. "All of you please stand still and say cheese!" said the photographer. "Is everybody ready? Say cheese!" asked Mary, aiming the camera.

See also: say

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a big cheese  (humorous)

an important or powerful person in a group or organization Apparently her father is a big cheese in one of the major banks.

See also: big

be (like) chalk and cheese  (British & Australian) also be as different as chalk and cheese (British & Australian)

if two people are like chalk and cheese, they are completely different from each other I don't have anything in common with my brother. We're like chalk and cheese.

See put down to experience

See also: and, chalk

cheese-paring  (British)

actions that show you are not willing to spend or give money I'm fed up with all this cheese-paring. You've got to spend money if you want to make money.

Hard/Tough cheese!  (British & Australian informal) also Stiff cheese! (Australian informal)

something that you say to or about someone to whom something bad has happened in order to show that you have no sympathy for them So he's fed up because he's got to get up early one morning in seven, is he? Well hard cheese!

See Say cheese!

See also: hard

Say cheese!  (informal)

something that someone who is taking a photograph of you tells you to say so that your mouth makes the shape of a smile OK everyone, look at the camera and say cheese.

See also: say