“Breathe down someone's neck”in other languages
Watch someone too closely, or follow right behind them.
English
French
Turkish
EnglishFrenchTurkishSame idea, different pictures
English stands so close behind you that you can feel the breath. French takes the image from football: marquer à la culotte, marking an opponent so tightly you could grab his shorts.
Turkish leans toward pressure rather than watching: iki ayağını bir pabuca sokmak, to force someone's two feet into one shoe, means rushing them relentlessly.
More sayings in other languages
- Take the bull by the horns
- Burn one's bridges
- Butter someone up
- Butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
- By hook or by crook
- Call the shots
- Carry coals to Newcastle
- Caught red-handed
- Chew the fat