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This expression simply means that you cannot follow something or you don't understand. You ask why beyond? The only explanation I can give is that it comes from beyond my understandingor going much further than I can understand. There is another expression beyond the blue horizon, which means outside the world as we know it.
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| #3 (permalink) Tue May 26, 2009 17:55 pm Hello alan |
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the expression : sorry,it's beyond me
does it means : out of someone's mind does't it ?can you explain the easy way for me to understand....please.thanks lot |
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| #4 (permalink) Tue May 26, 2009 18:06 pm Hello alan |
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| Nganguyen wrote: |
the expression : sorry,it's beyond me
does it means : out of someone's mind does't it ?can you explain the easy way for me to understand....please.thanks lot |
No. Someone can be out of his/her mind with worry or with joy.
Something being beyond me simply means that I don't understand it.
In Germany we sometimes say: 'It's too high for me'. It means the very same. It's too difficult for me to understand.
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:18 am Sorry, it's beyond me |
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| thank you Shyone.I got it. |
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:28 am Sorry, it's beyond me |
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| We can simply understand "beyond me" as "out of my reach", "out of my understanding". |
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| #7 (permalink) Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:59 am Sorry, it's beyond me |
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Hi alan
i understood very well from you expansion on the word
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Apr 01, 2011 16:24 pm Sorry, it's beyond me |
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Hi Alan'
Thank you for this explanation about those different expression, and thank you too Duccuong for help to understand those means.
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| #9 (permalink) Mon Apr 04, 2011 20:36 pm Sorry, it's beyond me |
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Like it's above me. I'm not good enough to touch it.
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| #10 (permalink) Thu May 12, 2011 9:33 am Sorry, it's beyond me |
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Hi Alan! I just wanted to ask you if the expressions "it's beyond me" and "it's way above my head" are interchangeable.
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| #11 (permalink) Thu May 12, 2011 9:36 am Sorry, it's beyond me |
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Hi,
Both have the same idea but 'way above my head' is much stronger suggesting that you really do not understand it at all.
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