cheek to jowl

comparative more cheek to jowl · superlative most cheek to jowl

1. alternativeAlternative form of cheek by jowl.

   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.”

   2015, Tom Soter, Investigating Couples, page 89

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   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.

   2008, David Laursen, Going to (And With) the Dogs, page 161

   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.

   2013, T. J. King, Something To Stand The Rain, page 3

comparative more cheek to jowl · superlative most cheek to jowl

1. alternativeAlternative form of cheek by jowl.

   They were cheek to jowl, and whatever Villarreal was telling him had Estevez worried.

   2011, John Lantigua, The Lady from Buenos Aires, page 140

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   The Russians used the “cheek to jowl” tactic, closing to less than 50 meters of the Wehrmacht's front line, too close for the Germans to call in artillery or Stuka support. It forced close quarters combat that the Russians had trained to conduct and the Germans had not.

   2010, Professional Journal of the United States Army, page 103

   Those two cities that are so cheek to jowl, separated only by a puddle of water and Frisco's pretensions, that they are really one city.

   2014, Mike Royko, Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997