cheese Идиома

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big cheese

an important person, a leader He is a big cheese in his company so you should be very nice to him.

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big gun/cheese/wheel/wig

an important person, a leader The new director was a big wheel in his previous company but is not so important now.

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cheesecake

naked flesh, bare skin The dancer provided lots of cheesecake - lots of bare leg.

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cheesed off

upset, annoyed, ticked off They were cheesed off when I said you wouldn't pay them.

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cut the cheese

let off gas, fart, pass wind Then somebody cut the cheese, and everybody laughed.

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American cheese

processed foodstuff resembling cheese, dyed orange (s.a. foods)

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cheese

1. money, material wealth
2. smegma. Alluding to the look of this male bodily secretion and perhaps the smell
3. an attractive male
4. to smile widely. Origin: the standard photographer command "Say cheese!" used to elicit smiles

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cheese-balled

to be under a great deal of stress;"I was pretty cheese-balled over final exams."

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government cheese

on welfare

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Chalk and cheese

Things, or people, that are like chalk and cheese are very different and have nothing in common.

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Hard cheese

(UK) Hard cheese means hard luck.

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More holes than Swiss cheese

If something has more holes than a Swiss cheese, it is incomplete,and lacks many parts.

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be like chalk and cheese

be completely different: "I don't know why they got married - they're like chalk and cheese."

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big cheese|big|big gun|big shot|big wheel|big wig|

n., slang An important person; a leader; a high official; a person of high rank. Bill had been a big shot in high school. John wanted to be the big cheese in his club.
Compare: WHOLE CHEESE.

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cheesebox

n., slang A small, suburban house built by a land developer available at low cost and resembling the other houses around it. They moved to a suburb, but their house is just a cheesebox.

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whole cheese|cheese|whole

slang or informal

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cheese it

cheese it
Stop, look out, as in Cheese it! Here come the cops! This term, generally stated as an imperative, may have been a replacement for the earlier “Stop at once.” Eric Partridge speculated that it may have been a corruption of Cease! but its true origin is not known. [Slang; mid-1800s]