above one's bend
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- (idiomatic, US, dated) Beyond one's power or ability.
- Synonym: above one's huckleberry
- 1835, Davy Crockett, An account of Col. Crockett's tour to the North and down East:
- I shall not attempt to describe the curiosities at Peale's Museum; it is above my bend.
- 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings:
- It would be above my bend to attempt telling you all we saw among the Redskins.
Further reading[edit]
- John Russell Bartlett (1848) Dictionary of Americanisms[1]