hard cheese informal
tough cheese BrE informal
stiff cheese AusE informal

Once they’re cut, they tend to age more quickly than a hard cheese.

He mixed the bread with some of the hard cheese as well.

Far more common in history, a meal was bread and hard cheese.

He held a platter of hard cheese and bread, from which she ate slowly.

You can use all kinds of cheese but strong hard cheeses will give the best flavour.

Would an occasional cargo of hard cheese or old grain hurt anyone?

"Start with something soft," he said, "like a hard cheese."

Sbrinz is a very hard cheese produced in central Switzerland.

In the United States it is most often found as a hard cheese, its more mature form.

Cheddar is a type of hard cheese made from cow's milk.

"Maybe a little piece of hard cheese," he said.

He won't like it, but that's his hard cheese.

Firm and hard cheese must be fragmented before analysis.

Finishing off the water bottle helped some, as did eating too much of the hard cheese and biscuits.

His bag filled a little with bread, a lump of hard cheese, half an apple, whatever they had about them.

A breakfast of bread, hard cheese, and dried apples had helped, but not enough.

Though he was not ravenous, some solid bread and hard cheese would have been welcome.

Old Chimay, a hard cheese matured for at least six months.

Hard cheese, high or low in fat, is quite rich in calcium.

This is a hard cheese which is typically aged about 6 months.

• Most processed cheeses and hard cheese can be kept for several months.

This trick works best on hard cheeses sealed in wax.

It has been compared to other hard cheeses of Europe:

"I know," Cerryl mumbled through the last of the hard cheese.

I know it's hard cheese on you, but just this once perhaps you should give the adventure side a miss.

"Suddenly he felt what he believed was tough cheese on one side of his mouth," the suit reads.

Not to mention tough cheese and sour beer, and an occasional helping of weevils.

It's tough cheese.

It Takes a Tough Cheese

Testers liked the spicy pepperoni and tangy sauce but not the stiff cheese.