| English | Russian |
| big cheese | шишка |
| big cheese | важная птица |
| big cheese | большой человек |
| big cheese | хозяин |
| cheese dick | выпендрёжник (руг. Taras) |
| cheese fries | картофель-фри с сыром (Скоробогатов) |
| cheese slid off one's cracker | тронуться мозгами (Andrew wants to sell bees as pets? Wow, his cheese has really slid off his cracker, huh? Taras) |
| cheese slid off one's cracker | сойти с ума (Taras) |
| cheese slid off one's cracker | кукуха поехала (My aunt has always been a bit eccentric, but the cheese has really slid off the cracker in recent years Taras) |
| cheese slid off one's cracker | крыша поехала (Did you hear the crazy conspiracy theories the governor started peddling on the radio yesterday? I think that guy's cheese slid off his cracker! Taras) |
| cottage cheese | творог (Taras) |
| government cheese | плавленый сыр, выдававшийся по талонам государственной социальной программы c 1960-х до начала 1990-х (Linch) |
| pot cheese | творог |
| rat cheese | чеддер |
| rat cheese | дешёвый сыр |
| store cheese | сыр чеддер |
| think one is the whole cheese | только о себе думать (сл. Bobrovska) |
| think one is the whole cheese | считать себя самым главным (сл. Bobrovska) |
| top dog, top or fat cat, big fish, big cheese, hotshot, bigwig, head honcho, big or top gun, high man on the totem-pole, heavy-hitter, big man on campus, key player, big kahuna | шишка (See also "важная птица" или "большой человек") |
