Hi guys,
Can you help me understand the meaning of "breathes out at me" in this sentence? It's taken from a British novel.
I turn the knob and the door opens a crack.
If an alarm goes off, I’m dead. I hold my breath
for at least a minute, but nothing happens, the shop
just breathes out at me, hotly, fruitily, beckoning
me inside.
Spradini novel Recall that a novel is a piece of creative writing. It will have all kinds of unusual and interesting ways of expressing ideas and feelings. Spradini the shop just breathes out at me ~ I can smell the smells and feel the temperature and humidity inside the shop just from the air that escapes from the open door of the shop CJ
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Spradininovel
Recall that a novel is a piece of creative writing. It will have all kinds of unusual and interesting ways of expressing ideas and feelings.
Spradinithe shop just breathes out at me
~ I can smell the smells and feel the temperature and humidity inside the shop just from the air that escapes from the