outstep

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If you know your skill set, your interests, your needs and who you are, you won’t make too many mistakes—because you won’t outstep what you know how to do.

From Washington Post • May 22, 2015

It's my first time at the Oliviers, so I don't want to outstep my balance; I'm not going to wear magenta or neon and have you guys talking about me the next day.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2013

Jordan Turner-Hall decided that trying to outstep a rush defence was counter-productive and chipped into space for his fellow centre, George Lowe, to pick up ahead of Ojo and score.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2010

But, above all, Lord Byron did not wish to outstep the limits of reason to prove still more how powerless is reason, alone and unaided, in its endeavors to conciliate contradictory attributes.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

Who might have been, set on some outstep sphere, Less than a Want to me, as day by day I lived unware, uncaring all that lay Locked in that Universe taciturn and drear.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas