above one's station

English

Of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.
The serf's ideas of equity were above his station.
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter IV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 91:
  Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation, […] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.