How would you say: [not] trespassing on someone else's field of expertise

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There is a manager in our company that he thinks that I am trying to do some task that he is the one that should be doing not me.
I am trying to decline his assumptions but my attempts sound wrong:

I am not crossing your specialty ...
I am not trespassing your field of specialty ...

ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · Answer

A common colloquialism would be "treading on your toes" (though Xanne's comment works too).
You could also say "I know this is your area, but..."
"Crossing your specialty" sounds odd to [this] native English speaker, and "trespassing", while quite a nice way of putting it, would work better with a preposition ("trespassing in" or "trespassing on").

How would you say: [not] trespassing on someone else's field of expertise

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