"Cheek by jowl" nghĩa là gì?

He remarked that his colleagues (đồng nghiệp) were packed "cheek by jowl" as he gave a speech (phát biểu) to the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, the Bloomberg news agency reported attendees as saying.

Historic Spitalfields struggles (khó khăn) to preserve (bảo tồn) its heritage, cheek-by-jowl with the City skyscrapers (nhà chọc trời).

It was not by chance that the first areas in the renewed lockdown were social housing towers where immigrant (nhập cư) families lived cheek by jowl.