Meaning of cheek to jowl | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [C1]

Examples

“These beach side developments continued for miles and—as we entered the city—were replaced by large hotels, sitting cheek to jowl, just across the highway from the beach which fronted on the gulf.”

“Blessed with fine, loving parents, the subject of this book lived out a childhood in which all of this reconstructed mindset rested unquestioned, cheek to jowl, alongside the radical proposition continually repeated within his pious family that, as someone said, we should love⟳ our enemies.”

“For instance, after Steed says she and a Russian spy will be working “cheek to jowl,” Mrs. Peel, with a twinkle in her eye, responds that “his cheek will come⟳ nowhere near my jowl.””

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