Close, intimate, side by side. The term is a very old one, dating
back
to the
sixteenth century (when
it apparently
replaced the
still older
cheek by cheek: “I’ll go with thee, cheek by jowl,” wrote Shakespeare in
A Midsummer
Night’s
Dream,
3.2). Eric Partridge deemed
it a cliché
by the
mid-eighteenth century.
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