above one's station

English

Prepositional phrase

above one's station

1. Of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.

   The serf's ideas of equity were above his station.

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter IV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 91:

     Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation, […] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.