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draw the line at
Idioms and Phrases
Refuse to go any further than, as in I draw the line at giving them more money . This expression alludes to a line drawn at a stopping point of some kind. [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
But they draw the line at potentially harmful skin care intended to slow the aging process in adults, and worry “skinfluencers†are pushing children to splurge on expensive products they don’t need.
But they draw the line at using distillation to produce or improve competing products — such as R1, a potential competitor for OpenAI’s ChatGPT models.
I’m a dine-in theater apologist myself, but even I draw the line at most full meal offerings.
While voters may tolerate partisan politics in these nominations, it seemed they might draw the line at someone as transparently ethically flawed as Gaetz—and senators knew it.
It is gutting to lose any national election, but this defeat will be particularly hard to swallow, because it means a decade of trying to convince our fellow Americans that they should draw the line at a commitment to bare-minimum procedural democracy will have failed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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