above one's station
English
Prepositional phrase
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- Of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.
- The serf's ideas of equity were above his station.Category:English terms with usage examples#ABOVEONESSTATION
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter IV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 91:
- Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation, […] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.Category:English terms with quotations#ABOVEONESSTATION