Hard Cheese
Bad luck, misfortune.
Origin
By association with aged cheese that has hardened, dried out, and become unfit for consumption.
Examples
Jem. His wages was too low. Don't you think a pound a month, and find one's self is hard cheese?
It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
Definitions from the English-Bulgarian Dictionary:
Hard [ha:d] – hard, tough, hardened.
Cheese [tJi:z] – cheese.
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