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[over one's head]  {adv.} or  {adj. phr.}

1. Not understandable; beyond your ability to understand; too hard or strange for you to understand.

Mary laughed just to be polite, but the joke was really over her head.

* /The lesson today was hard; it  […]

[over spilled milk]

See: [CRY OVER SPILLED MILK].

[over the coals]

See: [HAUL OVER THE COALS] or [RAKE OVER THE COALS].

[over the hill]  {adj.},  {informal}

Past one's prime; unable to function as one used to; senile.

[over the hump]  {adj. phr.},  {informal}

Past the most difficult part; past the crisis; out of danger.

Mary was failing math, but she is over the hump now.

John was very sick after his accident, hut he's over the hump.

* /When Mr. Smith was  […]

[over the long haul]

See: [IN THE LONG RUN].

Contrast: [OVER THE SHORT HAUL].

[over the short haul]

See: [IN THE SHORT RUN].

Contrast: [OVER THE LONG HAUL].

[over the top]  {adv. phr.}

1. Out of the trenches and against the enemy.

The plan was to spend the night in the trenches and go over the top at dawn.

* /Johnny found that he was braver than he thought he would be when his company went over the  […]

[over the traces]

See: [KICK OVER THE TRACES].

[over with(1)]  {prep.}

At the end of; finished with; through with.

They were over with the meeting by ten o'clock.