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to draw a line in the sand

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  • draw a line in the sand — If you draw a line in the sand, you establish a limit beyond which things will be unacceptable …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • draw a line in the sand —    If you draw a line in the sand, you establish a limit beyond which things will be unacceptable.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If you draw a line in the sand, you establish a limit beyond which a certain situation or activity will not …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • draw a line in the sand — verb a) To provide a test of commitment to a cause that carries a high risk. In 1836, [ …   Wiktionary

  • draw a line in the sand — to say that a particular idea or activity will not be supported or accepted. The president has drawn a line in the sand, which means that if the foreign troops are not removed, they will be attacked. Etymology: based on the idea of literally… …   New idioms dictionary

  • Line in the Sand Match — Round 11, 2004 Hawthorn v Essendon Hawthorn Essendon …   Wikipedia

  • a line in the sand — (draw) a line in the sand (state that one has reached) a point beyond which one will not go …   Useful english dictionary

  • draw a line in the sand — idi to set a limit; allow to go up to a point but no further …   From formal English to slang

  • line — In Fanny Burney s Cecilia (1782) the question is asked Where, then, do you draw the line?, meaning how far can a person expect to be independent. The image of drawing lines has fed English idiom for several centuries, extending to the more… …   Modern English usage

  • draw — [c]/drɔ / (say draw) verb (drew /dru / (say drooh), drawn, drawing) –verb (t) 1. (sometimes followed by along, away, in, out …  

  • line — I. /laɪn / (say luyn) noun 1. a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface. 2. something resembling a traced line, as a band of colour, a seam, a furrow, etc.: lines of stratification in… …  

  • sand — sandable, adj. sandless, adj. sandlike, adj. /sand/, n. 1. the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz. 2. Usually, sands. a tract or region composed principally of sand. 3. the sand or a grain of… …   Universalium

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