Brewer's: Cheek

None of your cheek. None of your insolence. “None of your jaw” means none of your nagging or word irritation.

We say a man is very cheeky, meaning that he is saucy and presumptuous.

To give cheek.
To be insolent. “Give me none of your cheek.” To have the cheek. To have the face or assurance. “He hadn't the cheek to ask for more.”

“On account of his having so much cheek” —Dickens: Bleak House.

Cheek

(To). To be saucy. “You must cheek him well,” i.e. confront him with fearless impudence; face him out.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Cheek by Jowl
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