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off-limits
[ awf-lim-its, of- ]
adjective
- forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons:
The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.
off limits
adjective
- not to be entered; out of bounds
adverb
- in or into an area forbidden by regulations
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of off-limits1
Example Sentences
Theater had seemed to be an inclusive space “like an island of misfit toys,†she said, but television was a medium she viewed as largely off-limits to her.
We were not permitted to interview the crew, and politics would have been off-limits anyway, but some of those on board were curious what I thought of the new administration.
Apartment dwellings, considered synonymous with urban blight, were banned in favor of single-family homes, while mostly white suburbs were kept off-limits to Black Americans and other minorities.
The Westwood campus has increased restrictions on protests since fall — making the majority of public areas off-limits to demonstrations without permits — and upped the presence of campus security guards.
As well as pledging to deport millions of illegal migrants and threatening workplace raids, some reports suggest that Trump could also do away with a longstanding policy that has made churches off-limits for ICE arrests.
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