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Default Re: A few idioms I don't fully understand

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Originally Posted by tdol
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Just one quibble (sorry, tdol ) - "to be out of one's depths" - it could be a UK/US thing, but I've always understood this to mean something that is beyond one's expertise, something that is difficult to comprehend: "I was accepted to law school, but I was so out of my depth that I dropped out after one semester."
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