Idiom: out of my depth

[Chelsea]

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #211 "What Comes Next? (5)", question 4

I don't know about you but I can't make sense of this at all. Answer: ..........

(a) Me too, I'm just out of my height
(b) Me too, I'm just out of my length
(c) Me too, i'm just out of my depth
(d) Me too, I'm just out of my size

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #211 "What Comes Next? (5)", answer 4

I don't know about you but I can't make sense of this at all. Answer: Me too, i'm just out of my depth.

Correct answer: (c) Me too, i'm just out of my depth

Your answer was: incorrect
I don't know about you but I can't make sense of this at all. Answer: Me too, I'm just out of my height.
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I want to get an explanation about the meaning of the sentences

Chelsea

[Alan]

Hi Chelsea,

Out of my depth is an idiom that means it's too complicated for me to understand - it's too deep.

Alan
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[DOlier]

Hi Alan

Surely that should be "Me, neither, I'm just. . . ."

Art

[Conchita]

And I would say: Neither can I.

[Yankee]

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And I can't rule out the possibility that I might say: "I can't either."


Does anybody have any additional options?

[DOlier]

Chelsea,

I think Yankee's "I can't either.", or Conchita's "Neither can I", are both much better.

I was trying to stick as close to the original question with "Me, neither,.."

The point we're making is that "too" means "also included", whereas "..neither..", or "..not either..", means "also excluded". So in this context "too" is not suitable.

[Alan]

Hi,

I'm happy with 'me too' in this conversational setting following on with I'm out of my depth suggesting that's the situation the other person is in.

Alan
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[Haihao]

Hi,

I ran into this test today and I would like to make a few questions about it. Sorry to pick it up again.

My feeling was, if we consider the 'too' as suggesting a confirming response to the question:

I don't know about you but I can't make sense of this at all.

then we could say: 'I can't make sense of this at all, either.' instead of 'Me too.' In this sense, I wondered if 'Me either' could be grammatically better if the 'too' were not supposed to confirm the latter part 'I'm out of my depth'. Just out of curiosity.

haihao

[Alan]

Hi,

To come back again to this test, which seems to be causing so much consternation. Remember that the conversation is not between two academic linguists but two people speaking idiomatically and the use of 'Me too' simply means here 'I am in agreement with what you have just said'.

A
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