| 单词 | ideas above one's station |
| 释义 | > as lemmasideas above one's station b. ideas above one's station: ambitions or pretensions beyond what is expected or usual for one's social position, rank, etc. (usually impractical or undesirable ones). ΚΠ 1795 Short State Charity Schools St. Giles in Fields 4 Nothing unnecessary, or tending to instil Ideas above their Station, is provided for the Boys. 1853 R. B. Brough & W. Brough Second Calender ii. i. 26 And then she's got ideas above her station, Through having had a fairy education. 1998 S. Waters Tipping Velvet i. 16 It might give Nancy ideas above her station... We couldn't have that. 2001 S. Brett Death on Downs (2002) xxxii. 207 Like the other residents of the village, she was very quickly condemning Pauline Helling for having ideas above her station. < as lemmas |
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