Cheese?

[myowndivinity.livejournal.com]

At work tonight, a guy asked me if I knew how to say, "What's up with cheese?" in Russian. Don't ask why. And... I don't. So if anyone knows, it'd be much appreciated.

That and how to say "cheddar cheese" and "shut up."

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

"What's up with cheese?" - do you mean to literally ask what happened with some cheese, or is that an idiom I don't know?

cheddar cheese - сыр чеддер
shut up - заткнись (заткнитесь in plural)

[myowndivinity.livejournal.com]

"do you mean to literally ask what happened with some cheese, or is that an idiom I don't know?"

I really have no clue.

[icamel.livejournal.com]

Try to say it in other words in English.

[negativeentropy.livejournal.com]

Maybe in the "So, what's the deal with cheese?" sense?--but then again, who knows what is happening in this person's head.

[baby-rhino.livejournal.com]

Что с сыром? would be the most likely translation then.

[impersona.livejournal.com]

doesn't ring any bell for a native russian...
if you find out, would you mind to share this interesting knowledge? ;-)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Literally it's "что с сыром?"; may change a good deal if we define the context - for example, if it's "we agreed that we were goona have some cheese, but where's the cheese then, doggone it?" then it's "а где [же] сыр?", but if it's "I hoped we would have some cheese, but what happened to the cheese we have, blimey, it's stinking!" then it's "[а] что [это] с сыром?".

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

It is an idiom. I think it comes from American comedians. Taking a phrase that makes sense like "What's up with the government?" and applying it to something like cheese for absurd humor.

[misterobnoxious.livejournal.com]

or could it be possible that the with cheese is just an addition?

like how some people say all that and a bag of chips?

like when you order at a fast food joint and they'll say.. blah blah... with cheese.

so a .. what's up. with cheese?

lol

maybe a stretch :)

Shut up

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

закрой(те) рот!

Less rude:
замолчи(те)!

[erekrose.livejournal.com]

I believe it comes from Jerry Seinfeld (or parodies of him), though that might be, "What's the deal with x?"