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cheek by jowl
cheek C0265600 (chēk)n.1. The fleshy part of either side of the face below the eye and between the nose and ear.2. Something resembling the cheek in shape or position.3. Either of the buttocks.4. Impertinent boldness: had the cheek to insult his hosts.tr.v. cheeked, cheek·ing, cheeks Informal To speak impudently to.Idiom: cheek by jowl Side by side; close together.
[Middle English cheke, from Old English cēace.]Thesaurus| Adv. | 1. | cheek by jowl - in close proximity; "the houses were jumbled together cheek by jowl" |
Translationscheek by jowl
cheek by jowlPositioned very close together. (The cheek and the jowl—the lower part of the jaw—are in close proximity to each other on the face.) You couldn't fit a piece of paper in the storage room now—all those boxes are stacked in there cheek by jowl.See also: by, cheekcheek by jowlFig. side by side; close together. The pedestrians had to walk cheek by jowl along the narrow streets. The two families lived cheek by jowl in one house.See also: by, cheekcheek by jowlSide by side, close together, as in In that crowded subway car we stood cheek by jowl, virtually holding one another up. This term dates from the 16th century, when it replaced cheek by cheek. See also: by, cheekcheek by jowl COMMON If people or things are cheek by jowl, they are very close together, especially in a way that seems strange. The two communities had lived cheek by jowl. The houses of the rich and poor stood cheek by jowl. Note: `Jowl' is an old-fashioned word for `cheek'. See also: by, cheekcheek by jowl close together; side by side. Jowl here is used in the sense ‘cheek’; the phrase was originally cheek by cheek .See also: by, cheekˌcheek by ˈjowl (with somebody/something) side by side (with somebody/something); very near: If he’d known that he was to find himself seated cheek by jowl with his old enemy he wouldn’t have attended the dinner.The jowl is the lower part of the cheek and so the cheek and the jowl are next to each other.See also: by, cheek cheek by jowl Side by side; close together.See also: by, cheekcheek by jowlClose, intimate, side by side. The term is a very old one, dating back to the sixteenth century (when it apparently replaced the still older cheek by cheek: “I’ll go with thee, cheek by jowl,” wrote Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 3.2). Eric Partridge deemed it a cliché by the mid-eighteenth century.See also: by, cheekEncyclopediaSeecheek |