beyond sb's competence
Frequency: 7.010.8 per million words
Used when a task is too difficult for someone.
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Examples (10)
- I'm afraid the work is beyond his competence.
- Diagnosing such a rare disease is beyond my competence as a general practitioner.
- Repairing the central server is beyond the IT support team's competence.
- She had to decline the offer because the required programming language was beyond her competence.
- The legal complexities of the case were far beyond the junior lawyer's competence.
- He wisely recognized that performing the advanced surgery was beyond his competence.
- This level of statistical analysis is simply beyond my competence; I'll need help.
- Are you certain this project doesn't fall beyond your team's competence?
- The task of translating ancient poetry was clearly beyond their competence.
- We need to hire an expert, as this problem is beyond our collective competence.