go over your head
/ˌɡəʊ ˌəʊvə jə ˈhed/INFORMAL · C1
Meaning
to be too difficult for you to understand
Examples
- 1Most of the lecture on quantum physics went over my head.
- 2Don't worry if the technical words go over your head at first.
- 3The talk was so full of legal terms that it went over my head, so I asked a friend to explain.
- 4Does the grammar in this book go over your head, or is it the right level for you?
- 5My dad nodded politely, but I could tell that my explanation of the app had gone over his head.
Grammar
go changes: goes, going, went, gone. The subject is the thing that is hard to understand. your changes to match the person: my, his, our.
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