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Meaning of "cheek by jowl" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHEEK BY JOWL

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WHAT DOES CHEEK BY JOWL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cheek by Jowl

Cheek by Jowl is a theatre company founded in the United Kingdom by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 1981. The company has performed across the world and, with their 1986 production of Twelfth Night, were the first to bring a Shakespearean play to The Swan. An international theatre company working in English, French and Russian, Cheek by Jowl has toured to over 200 cities in 40 countries, including Peter Brook's Bouffes du Nord in Paris, the Chekhov International Festival and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Cheek by Jowl is an Associate Company of the Barbican Centre, London.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHEEK BY JOWL

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CHEEK BY JOWL

bowl
cowl
fowl
goldfish bowl
growl
horned owl
howl
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mixing bowl
night owl
on the prowl
owl
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sugar bowl
Super Bowl
the Dust Bowl
toilet bowl
washing-up bowl
waterfowl

Synonyms and antonyms of cheek by jowl in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cheek by jowl» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHEEK BY JOWL

Find out the translation of cheek by jowl to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cheek by jowl from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cheek by jowl» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

挤得水泄不通
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

codo con codo
570 millions of speakers

English

cheek by jowl
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कंधे से कंधे मिलाकर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تلاصق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бок о бок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lado a lado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গলাগলি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

joue contre joue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pipi oleh jowl
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tuchfühlung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

顎による頬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

붙어서
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pipi dening jowl
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

má bằng xương hàm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கன்னத்தில் கன்னத்தில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गाल करून गाल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yanak tarafından jowl
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gomito a gomito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ramię w ramię
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пліч -о-пліч
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cot la cot
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κολλητά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

intiem
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kinden av käke
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kinnet av underkjeve
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cheek by jowl

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHEEK BY JOWL»

The term «cheek by jowl» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.585 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHEEK BY JOWL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cheek by jowl

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHEEK BY JOWL»

Discover the use of cheek by jowl in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cheek by jowl and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours
Disputes over gigantic Leylandii and noise nuisance turn nasty and fill newspaper columns. These stories have a rich history - as long as we have lived in shelters, we have had neighbours.
Emily Cockayne, 2013
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Cheek by Jowl
Presents critical essays on fantasy fiction in children's and young adult literature, including works on animals in children's literature, and the validity of the fantasy genre at any age.
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2009
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
The Revels plays edition by Derek Roper has been the standard scholarly edition since it appeared in 1975. This new edition uses the same authoritative text, but with notes designed for modern undergraduate use.
John Ford, Derek Roper, 1997
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The Changeling
Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, N. W. Bawcutt, 1998
5
Ubu Roi
A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, the farce satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly ...
Alfred Jarry, 2003
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Beautiful Thing: Screenplay
Premiered at the Bush theatre in 1993 Beautiful Thing was released as a feature film by Channel Four films in 1996 directed by Hettie Macdonald and featuring Meera Syal Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the ...
Jonathan Harvey, 2014
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Renaissance Florence: A Social History
... 2 buildings crowd in upon each other to create an environment in which,we instinctively sense, people were forced to live cheek by jowl. Even today a bird's- eye view of Florence reinforces this impression, as the complicated agglomeration ...
Roger J. Crum, John T. Paoletti, 2006
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Shakespeare Re-dressed: Cross-gender Casting in Contemporary ...
a queer reading of Cheek by Jowl's As You Like It inevitable. Surely it is not a coincidence that historicist early modern studies and postmodern performativity theory are in agreement about the potentials of theatrical cross-dressing, as are the ...
James C. Bulman, 2008
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Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change ...
" "Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Thomas Torrans, 2000
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The Touchstone of Life : Molecular Information, Cell ...
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. There, certain proteins in the apposing membranes come within reach of one another and ...
Laboratory of Cell Communication Marine Biological Laboratory Werner R. Loewenstein Director, Massachusetts, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHEEK BY JOWL»

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Armani and Chanel Played Up Couture's Inherent Glitz
That's what the designer did at today's Chanel couture show, where logo-covered slot machines stood cheek by jowl with celebrity craps ... «New York Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Explore Ghana: Exploring The Northern Region Of Ghana
... an age-long conflict between the Kokobas and the Bimobas, we found the chiefs of the two tribes sitting cheek by jowl to welcome the Hon. «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»
3
Bouchra Jarrar interview: The French designer breathing new life …
Other houses have also shifted towards the eighth arrondissement – Jarrar's closest competitors are Elsa Schiaparelli, cheek by jowl with those ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
4
Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's Globe, London
In Cheek by Jowl's recent Russian production, it was the abuse of power that came across most forcefully; here it is the equivocation and ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
5
“Shakespeare in Love”: Jewel in the Crown at Stratford Festival
... Independent said that the producers' smartest move was to hire Donnellan and Ormerod of the critically acclaimed company Cheek by Jowl. «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
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What It Means to Be Southern
People lived here, black and white, cheek by jowl, long before air conditioning in a place where a walk in the night air feels like bathing in stew. «Chron.com, Jul 15»
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At last, Lego to the fore
... corner housing Pumpkin Patch, heading north past Alan Cross tailor and the Reading Cinema, shops were cheek by jowl to the corner where ... «The Southland Times, Jul 15»
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The smart way to smart cities: shift state capitals out of overcrowded …
So why should everybody live cheek by jowl? Crowded and polluted. In fact, shifting their head offices out of New Delhi will only unfetter them ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
9
Reclaiming the road trip: A drive through Indiana and Kentucky
At the Triple XXX Family Restaurant in West Lafayette, Ind., customers jammed cheek by jowl around the U-shaped counter, tucking into ... «Chicago Tribune, Jun 15»
10
Fire up the super- accelerator, and get Dublin fizzing
I am aware that Dublin already has plenty of spaces where like-minded companies sit cheek by jowl. Their founders and staffers meet in the ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»

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