be beyond one 's capacity one 's depth

be beyond one 's capacity one 's depth

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ì B ù n é NGJ í, which means that the power can not be reached. It comes from the Pinghua of King Wu cutting Zhou.

The origin of Idioms

According to the volume of the Pinghua of King Wu's cutting down on King Zhou in Yuan Dynasty, the common people in a city saw that the city was destroyed by themselves and came to search and capture King Zhou. King Zhou saw that the army was so powerful that he could not reach it

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: can't support antonym: can

Idiom usage

The power is not available. The 21st volume of Yu Shi Ming Yan written by Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty: "at that time, there were many things in the Central Plains, and the land of Wu and Yue was far away, which was beyond the power of the imperial court."