to one's own cheek

English

Prepositional phrase

to one's own cheek

1. (archaic, slang) For one's own private use.
   • 1846, Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston, Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, page 447:

     […] and the immortal history of Adam, when Paradise was no better than this prairie, becos the old gentleman (I like to speak respectfully of my ancestors) had it all to his own cheek.

   • 1891, Ada Cambridge, The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story, page 126:

     He's one of the richest commoners in Great Britain — give you my word, sir, he's got a princely fortune, all to his own cheek — and he lets his places and lives in chambers in Piccadilly, […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary