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Reader question: Please explain “her league” in this quote: “I mean, I know I’m not in her league, but I’m not altogether out of her league either.” What league? My comments: The speaker, I think, admits that she’s better than him. Him? It’s only a guess, but this does sound like a guy who fancies a woman but keeps wondering whether she’s out of his reach. Or if the speaker were a woman and she were talking about measuring up with “her” in terms skills, then saying “I’m not in her league” is admitting that her skill level is inferior to that of the other woman. In fact, the speaker’s skill level is much inferior, even though she still thinks they can somehow compete with the other woman. League, you see, is a group of people who work together for some common purpose. You have the League of Nations after World War I, which kind of served as the United Nations back in the day. Here, you have the Youth League, youths who harbor great future, among others, political aspirations. The league, however, is mostly seen these days as a sporting organization, grouping teams from a country or different countries and playing games against each other regularly. Take the game of soccer, for example. The top flight in England, for instance, is called the Premier League, grouping the best clubs there. In Europe, they have the Champions League, which, as name suggests, groups national club champions (as well as other top finishers). | 
