beyond one's depth

1. see out of one's depth.

Example Sentences

One acquires a taste for the forbidden, and one hires a little room like this from an unprincipled blackguard like Honest George, and insensibly one goes deeper and deeper until one gets beyond one's depth.

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It was the feeling of being hurried out beyond one's depth—caught and whiffed away by the all-compelling sweep of some rabid vigour into a new, foreign element.

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Adv. beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears; mark twine, mark twain.

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By this time, one had got too far beyond one's depth to ask questions.

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