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cheek by jowl

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cheek by jowl
very close together. The poor lived cheek by jowl in industrial mining towns in Victorian England.
See also: cheek


cheek by jowl
very close together. Business and residential buildings have been developed cheek by jowl in this city.
Etymology: based on the idea that the cheek and jowl (= parts of the face) are very close to each other
See also: cheek

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Here they lay, cheek by jowl with life: no deeper down than the feet of the throng that passed there every day, and piled high as their throats.
The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon their place is taken by the beasts, a great and motley procession: lions, tigers, bears, and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them, for every kind of beast, and, more particularly, all the man-eaters, live cheek by jowl on the favoured island.
What did they do, all the chaps I knew, the chaps in the clubs with whom I'd been cheek by jowl for heaven knows how long?
 
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