above one's bend
English
Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic, US, dated) Out of one's control or power.
- 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.
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References
- 1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms
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