TURN THE OTHER CHEEK Definition & Meaning

Turn the other cheek

An adaptation of a command of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: “Ye have heard that it hath been said, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”; but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”

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To “turn the other cheek” is thus to accept injuries and not to seek revenge.

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Idioms and Phrases

Respond meekly or mildly to insult or injury without retaliating. For example, There's no point in arguing with that unreasonable supervisor; just turn the other cheek. This expression comes from the New Testament, in which Jesus tells his followers to love their enemies and offer their other cheek to those who have struck one cheek (Luke 6:29).

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Others emphasized the “compassionate Christ” who urged that we “turn the other cheek,” who mingled among lepers and saw the poor and sick as being God’s children: that “those who are ‘first’ in this world — prominent and powerful — may find themselves last in God’s kingdom.”

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Trump seizes every opportunity to play the crucified Christ but one that will never turn the other cheek.

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And Food Forward was my way to turn the other cheek.”

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The British foreign secretary, David Cameron, acknowledged just before meeting with the prime minister that Israel was unlikely to heed pleas to turn the other cheek.

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“If they had just trained them on how to turn the other cheek and not be retaliatory, which they were with me, with the summons, I thought this guy might still be alive. So it troubled me.”

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