out of one's element

out of one's elementoutside of one's natural surroundings 在不适宜的环境里；不得其所 * Wild animals are out of their element in cages. 野生动物不习惯笼中生活。 * I'm out of my element when people start talking about music. 人们一谈起音乐，我就是外行了。

• legit
• bonk-bag
• light operas
• barley
• predicables
• incurvature
• Kuprin, Alexander Ivannovich
• bull-bear
• coquina
• picked cotton
• pull caps wigs
• (at) second, third, etc. hand
• AIB
• ortanique
• semasiologically
• barracudas
• cider vinegar
• talk / buy etc your way into / past etc sth / sb
• drip pots
• toged
• esmes
• Board of Police Commissioners
• eximious
• get the green light
• LPA
• railmotor
• b.p.h.
• lodestone
• rain glass
• Off
• cullers
• waiss
• classicism
• saddle reefs
• innovatory
• -unfriendly
• Rhizidiaceae
• common-user channel
• filoreticulopodia
• amaryllises
• dissentings
• planksheer
• zero defects
• domain growth
• Khufu
• set on the tenter-hooks
• abduced
• horseshoer
• seatwork
• at risk to yourself/sb/sth
• capillary electrometer
• night by night
• selenographic
• Betamax
• cenomanians
• sightproof
• no great shakes
• part brass rags with
• fourth parts
• gombeen
• calcites
• Helvetians
• Nikolaev
• hawksbill turtle
• Latin American Monetary Union
• in the abstract
• magnetic stress tensor
• irreversibleness
• crush a cup
• triopolies
• die chaser
• quicksorts
• disconcertingly
• delude
• determine on
• down the line
• Manits
• anti-imperialistic
• word of mouth
• sadism
• damp sth↔down
• make a noise (about sth)
• the Queen lady in the chair
• arty-crafty
• solvent molding
• red flag
• bendroflumethiazide
• versatrans
• steady hand
• blanket ballot
• latch on (to sth)
• USBS
• rabble-rousings
• Basilian
• the bulk (of sth)
• Acrocorinth
• ruttishness
• have the speed of
• pearly nautiluss
• Fred.