What does cheek-by-jowl mean?
Cheek-by-jowl means Alternative form of cheek by jowl..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
Alternative form of cheek by jowl..
El-Amarna's crowded houses were separated not by wide streets, but by narrow, winding alleyways through piles of domestic garbage, in urban communities where everyone lived cheek-by-jowl.
Allusions to primitive art, whether directly drawn from reference works or freely improvised in the artist's own dainty scenarios) nestle cheek-by-jowl with automatic doodles which in turn lead into approximations of highly abstract compositions.
Obscure manuscripts and well-known texts reside cheek-by-jowl; so too, polished literary works and oral narratives.
In "The Dunwich Horror" the other-dimensional creatures are thwarted by the proper incantations, while witchcraft and the new Einsteinian universe appear cheek-by-jowl in "Dreams in the Witch House."
[H]e [David Free] had made his peace with the idea of spending half-term cheek-by-jowl on a cruise ship with the world's biggest Titanic enthusiasts.
LNER express trains old and new stand cheek-by-jowl at King's Cross during the evening rush hour on October 14.
As we drove at breakneck speed through the streets, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the gaunt and desperate faces of the people, the endless squatter settlements of cheek-by-jowl, single-room shacks surrounded by ankle-deep mud, and the occasional glimpses of the rich apparently oblivious to the suffering around them.
The cells here take advantage of the cheek-by-jowl situations prevailing in tissues and make their Circus connections right at the points of contact.
Use cheek-by-jowl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cheek-by-jowl means Alternative form of cheek by jowl..
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El-Amarna's crowded houses were separated not by wide streets, but by narrow, winding alleyways through piles of domestic garbage, in urban communities where everyone lived cheek-by-jowl.
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