over one's head

[over one's head] {adv.}

or {adj. phr.}

1. Not understandable; beyond your ability to understand; too hard or strange for you to understand.

* /Mary laughed just to be polite, but the joke was really over her head./

* /The lesson today was hard; it went over my head./

Compare: BEYOND ONE'S DEPTH. 2. To a more important person in charge; to a higher official.

* /When Mary's supervisor said no, Mary went over her head to the person in charge of the whole department./

* /If Johnny can't get what he wants from his big sister, he goes over her head and asks his mother./

3. See: HANG OVER ONE'S HEAD.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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