Read Edit View history 绠短汲深 gěngduǎnjíshēn out of one's depth Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 绠短汲深 綆短汲深 gěngduǎnjíshēn out of one's depth (idiom) used to humbly express that one's abilities are too limited to handle a difficult or important task. It literally describes a rope that is too short to reach water at the bottom of a deep well. Frequency Written text 0.002 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
绠短汲深 綆短汲深 gěngduǎnjíshēn out of one's depth (idiom) used to humbly express that one's abilities are too limited to handle a difficult or important task. It literally describes a rope that is too short to reach water at the bottom of a deep well. Frequency Written text 0.002 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)