• to be ravenously hungry
• to hear, heard, to overhear, overheard
• dead and gone, dead as a dodo, dead as a mutton, he's dead, to be gone
• to exceed, to pass, to top, to transcend
• to audition, to grant, to hear, heard, to lend an ear
• to attend to sy, to give one's ear to sy
• to be beyond one's power
• beyond me, beyond my means