beyond one's depth

Idioms  

1. see out of one's depth.

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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.

From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph

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

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry

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

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark