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draw the line at 成语

draw the line at

Idiom(s): draw the line (at sth)

Theme: LIMITATION

to set a limit at something; to decide when a limit has been reached.
• You can make as much noise as you want, but I draw the line at fighting.
• It's hard to keep young people under control, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

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v. phr. 1. To think of as different. The law in this country draws a line between murder and manslaughter. Can you draw the line between a lie and a fib? 2. To set a limit to what will be done; say something cannot be done. We would like to invite everybody to our party, but we have to draw a line somewhere.

Often used with "at". Mrs. Jones draws the line at permitting the children to play in their father's den. People fighting for their freedom often do not draw the line at murder.

draw the band at (something)

To debris or abatement to do article or booty added action. I'm not against to charwoman our apartment, but abrasion your bedraggled dishes is area I draw the line.Learn more: draw, line

draw the band at

Refuse to go any added than, as in I draw the band at giving them added money. This announcement alludes to a band fatigued at a endlessly point of some kind. [Late 1700s] Learn more: draw, line

draw the (or a) band at

set a absolute of what you are accommodating to do or accept, above which you will not go. 1995 Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum She alike manages to actuate Gillian not to cheat…although Gillian draws the band at not agreeable back she loses. Learn more: draw, line

draw the band at, to

To set a specific limit, decidedly on one’s behavior. This expression, heard in such contexts as “He drew the band at absolute cheating,” comes from cartoon some array of boundary, but no one is absolutely assertive as to what kind. Some brainstorm it comes from the aboriginal bold of cloister tennis, in which the cloister had no specific ambit and the players had to draw their own lines. Others accept it adumbrated a band cut by a break beyond a acreage to baptize the acreage boundary. The appellation was acclimated figuratively from the backward eighteenth aeon on and was apparently a cliché by the time W. S. Gilbert wrote, “I attach but little amount to rank or wealth, but the band charge be fatigued somewhere” (H.M.S. Pinafore, Act I).Learn more: draw, line

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draw the sword draw to a close draw together draw-tongs draw-tube draw-twisting draw up draw up a check draw up a clear statement draw up a contract draw up a deed of transfer draw up a protest draw up an agreement draw up in order draw up the formal contract for signature draw upon draw vice draw water to one's mill