What does “cheesed off” mean?

“Cheesed off” is an idiom and phrasal verb.

If I say that I’m cheesed off, I mean that I’m annoyed, disappointed or bored – or maybe all three!

Some examples:

• I’m cheesed off with the weather, I wish the sun would shine.
• She said that she was cheesed off when I arrived later than I promised.
• Peter gets cheesed off having to do the same job every day.

These examples are all intransitive, but cheesed off can also be used as a transitive verb. Somebody or something can cheese a person off:

• He cheeses me off by talking all the time.
• This tv programme isn’t as good as it used to be; it really cheeses us off.
• She really cheesed me off with all her gossiping.

Other idioms using cheese include:

• “Hard cheese!” This is used to mean “bad luck”, but usually without much feeling of sympathy.
• “As different as chalk and cheese.” This is used to say that two people (or two things) are very different from each other.