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idiomlive/stand/work cheek by jowl (with) BrEBrEused in order to say that things or people, often of very different kinds, live, stand etc very close together:On his bookshelf, Plato's 'Republic' stood cheek by jowl with a thriller by John Grisham.Workers' families lived cheek by jowl in the narrow streets under the factory chimneys.
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