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In the slums that crowd Kinshasa, the poor live cheek by jowl in cardboard huts near streams clogged with garbage that cut through mountains made of the stuff.
—Stuart A. Reid, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
Located in the achingly hip Shoreditch in inner east London, where the city’s financial powerhouses sit cheek by jowl with trendy restaurants, brands and hotels, Boxpark opened at Bishopsgate Goodsyard back in 2011 as a pop-up mall on a five-year lease.
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
The soundstages will sit cheek by jowl with public spaces and the idea is to pull back the curtain and make people feel part of the action.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
His setting is the Rocky Mountain West in the early twentieth century, a time and place when manual labor predominated (not by accident is the main character in each story a master of some physical task: logging, packing, fishing) and most people lived cheek by jowl with nature.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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First Known Use
1577, in the meaning defined above
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“Cheek by jowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheek%20by%20jowl. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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