not place

not (one's) place (to do something)

To not have the authority in one's role or status to do or say something. I know you're just trying to help, Mom, but it's not your place to discipline my kids. I know you're worried about your brother's marriage, but it's not your place to tell him how to live his life.
See also: not, place
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

not one's place

not one's role to do something. It was not my place to criticize my boss. It was not Bill's place to ask the questions; it's my project.
See also: not, place
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be like ships in the night
  • hope not
  • (I) hope not
  • not for a second
  • not for a minute
  • not for a moment
  • aint
  • ain't
  • not for a instant
  • not for a/one minute/moment/second/instant
References in classic literature
She thought the voice familiar, but could not place it, though her heart whispered that it might belong to the young stranger of her dreams.
"And yet you warn me that I must not place my love too high."
Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a model for repentance.
It was reasonable that he should feel he had been wrong; he had liberality, and he had the means of exercising it; and though she would not place herself as his principal inducement, she could, perhaps, believe that remaining partiality for her might assist his endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be materially concerned.
There was something strangely familiar about his face, and yet I could not place him.
"If our hospitality does not place Miss Lindsay above suspicion, the more shame for us.
But it was not so near that "Blinder," as the mob had promptly christened his neighbor, did not place his shaft just within the mark.
She had met many a panthan--they came and went, following the fighting of a world--but she could not place this one.
Personally, I do not place much stock in Professor Cortoran's theory, though I admit that I am prejudiced.
But that last hypothesis was unthinkable, since one could not place them anywhere outside those special establishments.
"Oh, do not place any reliance on that, madame; one drop of that elixir sufficed to recall life to a dying child, but three drops would have impelled the blood into his lungs in such a way as to have produced most violent palpitations; six would have suspended his respiration, and caused syncope more serious than that in which he was; ten would have destroyed him.
The workmen had gone only last night; and the last piece of work they did was the hanging of the heavy curtains which looped midway the length of the saloon--divided it in two if released, cutting off the after end with its companion-way leading direct on the poop, from the forepart with its outlet on the deck; making a privacy within a privacy, as though Captain Anthony could not place obstacles enough between his new happiness and the men who shared his life at sea.
"Rene, leave that where it is; monsieur did not place it there without intention."
He further suggested the growers should not place cotton pods in shade or wet places as they must be placed on trampoline or cretonne cloth in sunlight and dry area.
Taking to Twitter, Congress communications in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala requested all media channels and its editors to not place any Congress representatives on their shows.