cheese
noun/tʃiːz/
Слово англійською: cheese
Переклад cheese українською: сир
Детальний опис
- [uncountable, countable] a type of food made from milk that can be either soft or hard and is usually white or yellow in colour; a particular type of this food
- Cheddar cheese
- (British English) goat’s cheese (= made from the milk of a goat)
- a cheese sandwich
- a piece/slice/block of cheese
- I had cheese on toast (= toasted bread covered in melted cheese) for lunch.
- a selection of French cheeses
- a cheese knife (= a knife with a special curved blade with two points on the end, used for cutting and picking up pieces of cheese)
- a snack of bread and cheese
- a wedge/hunk/chunk of cheese
- a cheese sauce/salad
- cheese!what you ask somebody to say before you take their photograph
Word OriginOld English cēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse; from Latin caseus.
Idioms
a big cheese
- (informal, humorous) an important and powerful person, especially in an organization
chalk and cheese
- (British English) if two people or things are like chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese, they are completely different from each other
- Frank and I will never get along. We’re chalk and cheese.
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- black and blue
- born and bred
- chalk and cheese
- chop and change
- done and dusted
- down and dirty
- in dribs and drabs
- eat somebody out of house and home
- facts and figures
- fast and furious
- first and foremost
- forgive and forget
- hale and hearty
- hem and haw
- kith and kin
- mix and match
- part and parcel
- puff and pant
- to rack and ruin
- rant and rave
- risk life and limb
- short and sweet
- signed and sealed
- spick and span
- through thick and thin
- this and that
- top and tail
- tried and tested
- wax and wane
hard cheese
- (British English, informal) used as a way of saying that you are sorry about something, usually ironically (= you really mean the opposite)