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Not in her league?

It goes without saying that players of similar skills play in the same league. In American Baseball, for example, they have the Major League and Minor League. The Major League is the big-time group featuring professionals who are adults, as compared with players in the Minor League who are under-age youngsters. Or minors, hence the name Minor League. The Major League and the Minor League are, quite obviously, not the same.

Anyways, a few set phrases have sprung up involving people playing together in a league. If Person A is considered not to be “in the same league” as Person B, then Person A is much inferior, or superior to Person B, depending on the situation.

And if a person is described as “out of her league”, then they’re totally incompatible. The unspoken message here is that this person is so inferior to “her” that it’s inappropriate to even begin to compare the two.

(In our example, though, the speaker clearly thinks he/she still has a chance competing with “her”. That’s why he/she is not “altogether out of her league.”)

In rare cases, an athlete is so good at his/her game that he/she is sometimes describes as “in his or her own league”.

What does that mean?

You’ve got it right. That means he’s head and shoulders above all the rest. He is by far the best of them all. Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer star for example, was in a league of his own when he dominated the game in the 1990s. Today, Lionel Messi is the closest soccer player that can be described as in a league, or class or his own.