above one's station

prepositional phrase

Of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.

“The serf's ideas of equity were above his station.”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. Of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.

    The serf's ideas of equity were above his station.

    1 more example

    Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation,[…] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.

    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
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Chicago

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