cheesed off


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cheese off

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.
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cheesed off

Angry or irritated. I barely spoke to him all night, so I don't know why he's cheesed off.
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*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.
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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]
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cheesed off

mod. angry; disgusted. Clare was really cheesed off at the butler.
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