Above your hook

i.e., beyond your comprehension; beyond your mark. The allusion is to hat-pegs placed in rows; the higher rows are above the reach of small statures.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Abon Hassan
Abonde (Dame)
Abortive Flowers
Abou ebn Sina
Abou-Bekr
Abou Jahia
Aboulomri (in Mohammedan mythology)
Above
Above-board
Above par
Above your hook
Abracadabra
Abracax
Abraham
Abraham’s Bosom
Abraham Newland (An)
Abrahamic Covenant
Abrahamites
Abram-colour
Abram-Man
Abraxas Stones