beyond one's pay grade

介词短语

英文释义

介词短语
  1. Beyond one's level of authority. idiomatic
    — 1971, Testimony before U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Sir, I think that is a policy decision only the President can make. That is beyond my pay grade.
  2. Beyond one's capability. idiomatic
    — Figuring out how it would work logistically is above and beyond my pay grade and my brain power.

词源

Possibly from the correspondence of the pay grade to the level of authority in the U.S. civil service and in the U.S. armed forces.
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