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slang To anger or irritate someone. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cheese" and "off." I don't think I said anything to cheese him off, so I'm not sure why he's so mad. I would try not to cheese off the boss today if you can help it—the quarterly sales figures just came in, and she is not in a good mood.
cheesed off
slang Angry or irritated. I barely spoke to him all night, so I don't know why he's cheesed off. The boss seemed really cheesed off about the quarterly sales figures, so I would try to stay out of her way if you can.
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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.
*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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
cheesed off
Angry, fed up, annoyed, as in I'm cheesed off about watering their plants twice a week. This term was originally military slang and sometimes put simply as cheesed. [Slang; mid-1900s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
cheese someone off
tv. to make someone very angry. Bobby cheesed off every person in the club.
cheesed off
mod. angry; disgusted. Clare was really cheesed off at the butler.
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