BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK

Meaning of BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK in English

v. phr. , informal To follow closely; threaten from behind; watch every action. Too many creditors were breathing down his neck. The carpenter didn't like to work for Mr. Jones, who was always breathing down his neck.

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BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK — phrasal to threaten especially in attack or pursuit, to keep one under close or constant surveillance
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK — phrasal : to threaten or loom threateningly in or as if in pursuit or attack
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK — be intrusive, look over one's shoulder
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK — 1. : to threaten especially in attack or pursuit 2. : to keep one under close or constant surveillance parents …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK — 1 : to threaten especially in attack or pursuit 2 : to keep one under close or constant surveillance <parents …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK — {v. phr.}, {informal} To follow closely; threaten from behind; watch every action. * /Too many creditors were breathing down his …
Slang English vocab
BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK — {v. phr.}, {informal} To follow closely; threaten from behind; watch every action. * /Too many creditors were breathing down his …
Словарь английских идиом
BREATHE DOWN ONE`S NECK — follow closely, threaten from behind My boss has been breathing down my neck all day to try and get me …
English Idioms vocab
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
DOWN — I. ˈdau̇n noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English doun hill, from Old English dūn; akin to Middle Dutch dūne …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BREATHE — I. ˈbrēth verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English brethen, from breth, breeth breath intransitive verb 1. a. obsolete : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BREATHE — (v. t.) To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.
Английский словарь Webster
BREATHE — (v. t.) To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.
Английский словарь Webster
BREATHE — ( v. t. ) To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BREATHE — ( v. t. ) To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NECK — — necker , n. — neckless , adj. — necklike , adj. /nek/ , n. 1. the part of the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DOWN — down 1 /down/ , adv. 1. from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BREATHE — /breedh/ , v. , breathed /breedhd/ , breathing . v.i. 1. to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DOWN — I. ˈdau̇n adverb Etymology: Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, short for adūne, of dūne, from a- (from of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BREATHE — verb ( breathed ; breath·ing ) Etymology: Middle English brethen, from breth Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. a. : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NECK — vt & ·vi to kiss and caress amorously. 2. neck ·noun the point where the base of the stem of …
Webster English vocab
DOWN — adj downcast; as, a down look. 2. down ·adv from a remoter or higher antiquity. 3. down ·vt to cover, …
Webster English vocab
BREATHE — vi to take breath; to rest from action. 2. breathe ·vt to utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. 3. …
Webster English vocab
BREATHE — [breathe] vb breathed ; breath.ing [ME brethen, fr. breth] vi (14c) 1 a: to draw air into and expel it …
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NECK — / nek; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] the part of the body between the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DOWN — / daʊn; NAmE / adverb , preposition , verb , adjective , noun ■ adverb HELP NOTE : For the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BREATHE — / briːð; NAmE / verb AIR / BREATH 1. to take air into your lungs and send it out again …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NECK — I. neck 1 S2 W2 /nek/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: hnecca ] 1 . PART …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DOWN — I. down 1 S1 W1 /daʊn/ BrE AmE adverb , preposition , adjective 1 . TO A LOWER POSITION to …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BREATHE — breathe S3 W3 /briːð/ BrE AmE verb [ Word Family: noun : ↑ breath , ↑ breather , ↑ breathing …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NECK — n. & v. --n. 1 a the part of the body connecting the head to the shoulders. b the part …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
DOWN — adv., prep., adj., v., & n. --adv. (superl. downmost) 1 into or towards a lower place, esp. to the ground …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BREATHE — v. 1 intr. take air into and expel it from the lungs. 2 intr. be or seem alive (is she …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NECK — n. & v. n. 1 a the part of the body connecting the head to the shoulders. b the part …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DOWN — adv., prep., adj., v., & n. adv. (superl. downmost) 1 into or towards a lower place, esp. to the ground …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BREATHE — v. 1 intr. take air into and expel it from the lungs. 2 intr. be or seem alive (is she …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
NECK — n. & v. --n. 1. a the part of the body connecting the head to the shoulders. b the part …
Oxford English vocab
DOWN — 1. adv., prep., adj., v., & n. --adv. (superl. downmost) 1. into or towards a lower place, esp. to the …
Oxford English vocab
BREATHE — v. 1. intr. take air into and expel it from the lungs. 2 intr. be or seem alive (is she …
Oxford English vocab
DOWN — I. PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES /daʊn/ Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NECK — ( necks, necking, necked) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your neck …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BREATHE — ( breathes, breathing, breathed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. When people …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
NECK — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a crick in your back/neck ▪ He was getting a crick in his neck …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DOWN — I. adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bird swoops down (= it suddenly flies down ) ▪ The bird swoops …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BREATHE — [verb]To breathe is to take air into the lungs and let it out again.It's so airless in here - I …
Cambridge English vocab
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BREATHE — Synonyms and related words : He, affect, air, alert, approve, argue, articulate, aspirate, attest, bark, bawl, be, be alive, be …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
NECK — See: BREATHE DOWN ONE'S NECK, BREAK ONE'S NECK, CATCH IT IN THE NECK or GET IT IN THE NECK, PAIN …
Slang English vocab
DOWN — n. back down bear down beat down bog down boil down bowl down break down bring down broken down buckle …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
BREATHE — v. breathe in breathe out breathing space
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
BREATHE — verb 1 air/breath ADVERB ▪ fast , quickly , rapidly ▪ slowly ▪ deeply ▪ shallowly ▪ hard , heavily …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
NECK — See ↑ KISS 2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be a pain in the neck • ↑ be breathing down sb's neck …
Longman Activator English vocab

American Idioms English vocabulary

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