cheek
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cheek |
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arse, ass, backside, bank, beam, behind,
border, bottom, brashness,
brass, brazen boldness, breech,
broadside, bum, butt, can, cheeks, chop, chutzpah, coast, confidence, crust, derriere, duff, face, fanny, flank, gall, hand,
handedness, haunch, heroics,
hip, hubris, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence,
jowl, keister, laterality,
many-sidedness, multilaterality, nerve, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, planking, prat, presumption, profile, quarter, rashness, rusty-dusty, shore, side, siding,
stern, tail, temerariousness,
temerity, temple, tuchis,
tush, tushy, unchariness, unilaterality, unwariness
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tongue in cheek |
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casuistic, casuistry, crossed fingers,
dishonest, disingenuous, disingenuousness, emptiness, empty, hollow, hollow mockery, hollowness, insincere, insincerity, jesuitic, jesuitry, mealymouthed, mockery, sophistry, uncandid, uncandidness, uncandor, unfrank, unfrankness, unserious
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turn the other cheek |
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allow for, bear with, blink at, condone, connive at,
digest, disregard, down, eat, endure, ignore, leave unavenged, let it go, make allowances for, overlook, pass over, pocket, pocket the affront, regard with indulgence, stomach, swallow, swallow an insult, take, turn aside provocation, wink at
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Main entries similar to: cheek
assurance, audacity, back talk, bank, beam,
border, brass, broadside, chop, chutzpah, coast, confidence, crust, disrespect, effrontery, face, flank, flippancy,
gall, hand, haunch, heroics, hip, hubris, impertinence, improvidence,
imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, insolence, jowl, mouth, nerve, overconfidence, planking, presumption, profile, quarter, sauce, shore, siding, talk, temerity, temple
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