cheek to jowl

English

Adverb

cheek to jowl (comparative more cheek to jowl, superlative most cheek to jowl)

1. Alternative form of cheek by jowl
   • 2008, David Laursen, Going to (And With) the Dogs, page 161:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2015, Tom Soter, Investigating Couples, page 89:

     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.”

Adjective

cheek to jowl (comparative more cheek to jowl, superlative most cheek to jowl)

1. Alternative form of cheek by jowl
   • 2010, Professional Journal of the United States Army, page 103:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.