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View synonyms for cheek by jowl

cheek by jowl

  1. Situated side by side or in close contact: “The commuters were packed in the subway cheek by jowl.”


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Side 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 .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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