beyond one's means

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

To be sure, there is an American tradition of spending beyond one's means.

But easy credit has its downsides, including the tendency to spend beyond one's means.

To her parent's generation, Ms. Hall said, owing money beyond a mortgage was "shameful," an admission of living beyond one's means.

What brought them down was a global debt market that pushed the cost of borrowing beyond affordable levels: markets made the bad habit of living beyond one's means simply too expensive.

Mowing lawns has always seemed to me among the most despair-inducing of human activities, and, by way of following Ken's example of living beyond one's means, I delayed the first mowing until the grass was so long that I had to stop and empty the clippings bag every five minutes.

As the impacts of spending beyond one's means mount from the euro zone to the Beltway, they illustrate the irrelevance of well-meaning, high-minded discussions of how human economies are, in the end, subsets of global physical and ecological systems.

What does it mean to be "beyond one's voluntary control"?

Living within one's means.

This requires a willingness to learn new roles, even or especially when it means moving beyond one's comfort level or skill set, he says.

This means that at any time one risks the danger of going beyond one's evidence, but this is the methodological price one must pay to make further progress.

These relationships express care for others beyond their serving as means for one's own satisfaction.