out of one's depth

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9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: no tocar de peus — in water so deep that one cannot stand and may be at risk of drowning
• Finnish: liian syvissä vesissä — in water so deep that one cannot stand and may be at risk of drowning
• French: n'avoir pas pied — in water so deep that one cannot stand and may be at risk of drowning
• Hungarian: kicsúszik a lába alól a talaj — in a situation which one is poorly prepared or unprepared to handle
• Hungarian: elveszti a talajt a lába alól — in a situation which one is poorly prepared or unprepared to handle
• Hungarian: nem tud megbirkózni vele — in a situation which one is poorly prepared or unprepared to handle
• Hungarian: meghaladja a képességeit — in a situation which one is poorly prepared or unprepared to handle
• Spanish: meterse en honduras — in a situation which one is poorly prepared or unprepared to handle
• Swedish: ute på djupt vatten — in a situation which one is poorly prepared or unprepared to handle