Chapter Chasidim to Cheeseparer of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Chawed up Done for, utterly discomfited, demolished. (American.)

Che sara, sara What shall be will be. The motto of the Russells (Bedford)

“What doctrine call ye this, Che sara, sara!” - Faust (Anster's translation), i. 1.

Cheap as a Sardinian A Roman phrase referring to the great crowds of Sardinian prisoners brought to Rome by Tiberius Gracchus, and offered for sale at almost any price.

Cheap Jack Jack, the chap-man. Not cheap, meaning low-priced, but cheap meaning merchant, as in “chapman,” “Cheap-side,” etc. Jack is a term applied to inferior persons, etc. (Saxon, cepa, a merchant; ceapian, to buy; ceapmann, a tradesman.) (See Jack )

Cheapside Bargain (A). A very weak pun, meaning that the article was bought cheap or under its market value.

Cheater (2 syl.) originally meant an Escheator or officer of the king's exchequer appointed to receive dues and taxes. The present use of the word shows how these officers were wont to fleece the people. (See Catchpole ).
    Compare with escheator the New Testament word “Publicans,” or collectors of the Roman tax in Judæa, etc.

Chech Called also stone-chest, kistvaen (a sepulchral monument or cromlech).

“We find a rude chech or flat stone of an oval form, about three yards in length, five feet over where broadest, and ten or twelve inches thick.”- Camden.

Checkmate in the game of chess, means placing your adversary's king in such a position that he can neither cover nor move out of check. Figuratively, “to checkmate” means to foil or outwit another; checkmated, outmanoeuvred. “Mate” (Arabic, mat, dead; Spanish, matar, to kill). The German schach means both chess and check, and the Italian scacco means the squares of the chess-board; but schach-matt and scaccomatto = check-mate. The French échec is a “stoppage,” whence donner or faire échec et mat, to make a stoppage (check) and dead; the Spanish, xaque de mate means the check of death (or final check).
    If we go to Arabic for “mate,” why not go there for “check” also? And “sheik mat” = the king dead, would be consistent and exact. (See Chess)

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.

Cheek by Jowl In intimate confabulation; tête-á-tête. Cheek is the Anglo-Saxon ceca, céac-bán, cheek-bone; and jowl is the Anglo-Saxon ceole (the jaw); Irish, gial.

“Ill go with thee, cheek by jowl.”- Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2.

Cheese
   Tusser says that a cheese, to be perfect, should not be like (1) Gehazi, i.e. dead white, like a leper; (2) not like Lot's wife, all salt; (3) not like Argus, full of eyes; (4) not like Tom Piper, “hoven and puffed,” like the cheeks of a piper; (5) not like Crispin, leathery; (6) not like Lazarus, poor; (7) not like Esau, hairy; (8) not like Mary Magdalene, full of whey or maudlin; (9) not like the Gentiles, full of maggots or gentils; and (10) not like a bishop, made of burnt milk. (Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.)
    A cheese which has no resemblance to these ten defects is “quite the cheese.”
   Bread and cheese. Food generally, but of a frugal nature. “Come and take your bread and cheese with me this evening.”
   A green cheese: An unripe cheese.
   The moon made of green cheese. A slight resemblance, but not in the least likely. “You will persuade him to believe that the moon is made of green cheese.” (See above.)
   `Tis an old rat that won't eat cheese. It must be a wondrously toothless man that is inaccessible to flattery; he must be very old indeed who can abandon his favourite indulgence; only a very cunning rat knows that cheese is a mere bait.