Out of your depth
Learning English Conversations
BBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
A phrase for when you're struggling to do something.
Transcript
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| 0:41.0 | The English we speak. website. the English we speak. I'm Fay Faye Faye And hello I'm Rob. |
| 0:54.0 | Faye why's your hair wet it's not raining is it? |
| 0:57.0 | No Rob I've just been for my swimming lesson. |
| 1:01.0 | It was a bit scary actually. Oh, why's that? Well for the first time I |
| 1:05.9 | swam into the deep end and couldn't stand up. The lifeguard had to jump in and save me. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh dear Fay Faye, it sounds like you were out of your depth. |
| 1:16.0 | Yes, I suppose I was. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, I'm out of my depth too. |
| 1:20.0 | What? You're learning to swim too? |
| 1:22.0 | No, no, I'm struggling to complete this project about |
| 1:25.6 | statistics that the boss has asked me to do. I know nothing about statistics and |
| 1:30.1 | numbers, it's just too difficult and I just can't do it, so I'm out of my depth. |
| 1:35.0 | I've got it. |
| 1:37.0 | When you're out of your depth it can mean you're in a difficult situation that you cannot cope with. |
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