Tough cheese!

Tough cheese!
Hard/Tough cheese! British & Australian, informal, Australian, informal something that you say to or about someone to whom something bad has happened in order to show that you have no sympathy for them.

So he's fed up because he's got to get up early one morning in seven, is he? Well hard cheese!


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