| 词汇 | beyond your means |
| 释义 | Idiom beyond your meansbeyond (your) means too expensive for you.We bought a retirement home, but at first the repair work was beyond our means. Opposite of: within (your) meansbeyond (one's) meansExceeding one's available finances. If you keep living beyond your means, you'll deplete your bank account before you know it. Unfortunately, I can't go on the trip anymore—it's just beyond my means these days. beyond one's meansmore than one can afford. I'm sorry, but this house is beyond our means. Please show us a cheaper one. They feel that a Caribbean cruise is beyond their means. beyond one's meansToo costly for one, more than one can afford. For example, A second vacation this year is well beyond our means. The noun means here signifies "resources at one's disposal," a usage current since Shakespeare's time, as in Measure for Measure (2:2): "Let her have needful, but not lavish means." [Late 1800s] |
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