Sometimes you think you know a person.
And then you see him being arrested on the evening news.
Sometimes you think you know a word.
And then you see it’s also an adjective and a noun, appears in multiple idioms, and is used by teenagers around the world as slang.
That’s how I think you’re going to feel about “cheese.”
A simple word.
You know it.
But do you really?
Let’s find out.
CHEESE
A reader asks, “Can you teach us all the meanings of the word cheese?”
And he’s not talking about Swiss, American, goat, parmesan, brie or even cheddar.
I can think of an adjective, an idiom, an informal expression, and an order / command.
How many ways can you use “cheese”?
How deep does your knowledge of this Atomic Word go?
Share in the comments.
And this week, get ready to go deep with cheese.
By the time we’re done, you may even see it being arrested on the evening news…
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We say cheese to someone when he/she should smile when we take a picture
Sometimes the moon is like a cheese.
A cheesy movie: a movie with a silly plot.
A command to fake a smile for a photo.
*Cheese as a sort of food made in milk
*The photographer give you the instruction to say cheese and smile before take a photo
*Make some cheese as earn some money
*Cheese it, an order in slang that warn you to stop.a bad thing you do because police will come.
Say cheese and smile! Cheese for eating, and that’s all I know. But by the end of this week, I hope I’ll know more.
In France we have a big choice of cheese. I serve them on a cheese board.
I could eat a cheeseburger but I don’t, I prefer a cheese cake.
If you take a picture of your friends and you want them to have a smiley face for a better photo, just tell them « say cheese « and they will look happy !
I just discovered « cheesy » in my brand new Atomic word dictionary on page 19 ✌️
Big cheese- the most important person or the person with highest authority
Chesse = Smile!
When I was a teacher in a Primary school, at the beginning of every school year our headmaster gathered each class in front of the blackboard and prompted the students to say ‘cheese,’ capturing a photo of their smiles.😃
Cheese 🧀 as food used to make sandwiches 🥪 and other things to prepare various dishes.
Cheesy (something not really honest 🤔
Cheese 🧀 a saying we use while taking pictures.
It was a little strange for me when I first encountered in a text the slang phrase “cheesed off “. Ex. “She was a bit cheesed off by the bad weather.” I was wondering how they associate cheese with a bad mood (annoyance). I couldn’t find an explanation, so I made it up myself and that’s how I remembered this phrase. My explanation: Cheese like people is a good thing, but when it goes spoiled, it starts to stink. People also, when they are in a bad mood start to stink emotionally, like rotten cheese.🧀🤢
I know the cheese you eat.
I know the commend you say to people when you take photos and want them to smile….let’s us learn more.