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draw the line
verb as in set a limit
Example Sentences
“Enough is enough. The state’s voters continue to support so-called progressive policies, but are drawing the line when it impacts their cost of living or quality of life.”
“Erin knew where to draw the line,” says Tegan with a laugh.
However, both parties have found it difficult to work out where precisely to draw the line.
Universities have always had, and even embraced, the duty to draw the line between fact and fiction — to determine when an assertion or opinion falls below the line of intellectual acceptability.
Cheney drew the line at Trump's attempt to overturn the election, his incitement of an insurrection and the Big Lie he perpetuates to this day.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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