Reader question: "What does 'out of one's depth' mean?"
My comments:
Imagine yourself trying out the swimming pool for the first time.
At one end of the pool you have shallow waters, say, at 1.2 meters in depth. At the other end, which is the deep end, the water is, say, 3 meters deep. As a beginner you're not very good yet with water. You tend to struggle against it, fight it instead of flowing with it. But then again, when you can flow with it, that is to say, when you can get about without having to worry about remaining afloat, you can swim, for swimming is to roll with the flow and to do so with ease.
Relative ease, that is. You don't have to be an Ian Thorpe or a Michael Phelps to enjoy the swimming pool. Nor do you need to be a fish to enjoy the sea. Many swimmers plop their way about in lakes and seas, very awkward to watch, but that's ok. They are in their elements and not out of their depth.
We're drifting too far. We're not to be swimming out to the sea yet, before we know the depths, so to speak. Let's turn back to the beginning and recall our first timorous tiptoes out to the edge of the swimming pool. And imagine some mischievous friends suddenly grabbing you by the limbs and throwing you into the pool at the deep end.
Now, that's what being "out of one's depth" feels like. You're not very good at swimming yet and you're not sure if you can get out of the situation unscathed. In fact, you're afraid that you're going to drown...
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