Easy English Expression 0459 to breathe over someone's shoulder

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Oh, this phrase. I really, I hate this phrase. Actually, it's a very good phrase, but if you have to use it in real life, it's one of those expressions that you really hate. But we need to know it, and I hope you enjoy it.

E-Cube number 459. Let's go. Let's go back in time. Today's expression, listen carefully. To breathe over someone's shoulder. To breathe over someone's shoulder.

So you have to imagine that you are sitting at a desk and you're typing on the keyboard. And your boss comes up behind you, and they put their head right behind your head, kind of over your right shoulder, and they're going, Looks good, Shane.

Keep up the good work. What are you doing, Shane? Do you like that? Do you like it when your boss or your teacher or your brother or sister or husband or wife or mother or father or somebody, do you like it when someone breathes over your shoulder?

I hate it. I can't stand it. I had a boss like that. Yeah, it was when I worked in Korea. His name was – I'll use his name. What the heck? Dr. Min. Ah, yes.

Dr. Min. Now, I worked with Dr. Min for many, many years. We had a very good working relationship. But one thing he did that I hated was breathing over my shoulder.

And he was constantly breathing over my shoulder. He didn't need to. I was a good employee and he was always satisfied with my work. But he was constantly breathing over my shoulder.

And I tell you, Some people, when they breathe over your shoulder, it's not just the breathing. It's the breath. Sometimes it smells. If they smoke, if they were drinking, if they ate some weird food.

Ah! they're killing me man. Quit breathing over my shoulder. Quit watching very closely what I do. Leave me alone. Don't bother me. Let me do my job. Let me do my work.

I do not need to be watched. I do not need close supervision. This is the idea of breathing over someone's shoulder. Do you like it when somebody breathes over your shoulder?

But wait a minute. Do you sometimes breathe over someone's shoulder? Do you have a husband or a wife? Let's say you're a guy and you have a wife and she's in the kitchen cooking and

Do you go to the kitchen sometimes and breathe over your wife's shoulder? And you don't actually have to be over your wife's shoulder. You can just be in the same room.

What are you doing, honey? Is that salt? How much salt are you putting in there? Don't put too much salt in there. I don't like too much salt. Just a little bit of salt, please.

Please put some pepper in there too. Not too much pepper, just a little bit of pepper. Your wife's going to kill you. Let's check out a dialogue. Oh, Tim is constantly breathing over your shoulder.

Oh, I know. He's really nervous about the report. How's it going? It's almost finished. And that dialogue, I kind of understand. The boss is Tim, and Tim is breathing over the guy's shoulder because he's nervous about a report.

So he wants the report done perfectly. Yeah, sometimes your boss is going to breathe over your shoulder. If it's a really important job or if there's a deadline, if it's something very crucial – then your boss is going to breathe over your shoulder.

Yeah, I understand. It happens, okay? We all, at one time or another, we all breathe over somebody's shoulder. But don't make it a habit. Yeah, it's not a good habit.

It's really not a good habit. Let's check out the dialogue two more times. Oh, Tim is constantly breathing over your shoulder. Oh, I know. He's really nervous about the report.

How's it going? It's almost finished. Oh, Tim is constantly breathing over your shoulder. Oh, I know. He's really nervous about the report. How's it going?

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