In the first case, if someone says a pack of wild wolves are breathing down their neck, it means the wolves are getting dangerously close – snapping at their heels, to use another similar expression.
In the second case, one of your teachers at school or a boss at work may be breathing down your neck from time to time. When that happens, it means they’re constantly looking over your shoulder and asking a lot of questions, how you’re getting along, etc. mostly needless questions.
Or giving advice, suggestions, orders and instructions. All needless and unnecessary.
In other words, they turn themselves into a nuisance, a bore, a bother, a burden, a pest, a plague.
You wish they’d get out of your sight.
Get lost.
Alright, here are a few media examples of real situations where “breathing down the neck” happens, both literally (being physically too close) and in the metaphorical sense (offering constant, excessive, discomfiting attention):
1. In these exclusive photographs, Anthony Marshall and his wife, Charlene, are shown breakfasting on a central battlefield of the epic Astor trial: the Maine estate that prosecutors say the couple pressured Brooke Astor to give up.
After a two-week relaxing break at Cove End in Northeast Harbor, Maine, their idyll comes to an end tomorrow, when Anthony Marshall, 85, is due back in court in Manhattan.
The trial, which began April 27 and was supposed to last about 10 weeks, will enter its 19th week of testimony - and the second week of Marshall's defense.
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