tough cheese

A phrase used when one is unsympathetic to someone who has suffered a hardship. If you slept through your alarm because you stayed up half the night, tough cheese!

See also: cheese, tough

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Hamilton manager Billy Reid, above, is enduring what cynics would call tough cheese.

NAE PASSING NAE MOVEMENT NAE NOTHING; (Actually it was four nothing but gutted Accies supporter sums up boss Billy's woes)

If saying this is politically incorrect, tough cheese.

A literary horserace: in which our reviewer declares the book a winner, but only by a nose

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