English

Prepositional phrase

above one's bend

1. (idiomatic, US, dated) Out of one's control or power.
   • 1835, Davy Crockett, An account of Col. Crockett's tour to the North and down East.

     I shall not attempt to describe the curiosities at Peale's Museum; it is above my bend.

References

• 1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms