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 check. To be insolent. “Give me none of your cheek.”

To have the cheek. To have the face or assurance. “He hadnʹt the cheek to ask for more.”

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

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.