Cheek by Jowl

side by side—said often of persons in such close confabulation that their faces almost touch. Cheese , anything good, first-rate in quality, genuine, pleasant, or advantageous, is termed the CHEESE . The London Guide , 1818, says it was from some young fellows translating “c’est une autre CHOSE ” into “that is another CHEESE .” But the expre ion CHEESE may be found in the Gipsy vocabulary, and in the Hindostanee and Persian languages. In the last CHIZ means a thing—that is the thing, i.e. , the CHEESE .