| 释义 |
off limits, off-limits, adv. (phr.) and a. orig. U.S.
[f. off prep. + pl. of limit n.]
Of an area, place, etc.: outside the limits within which a particular group or class of people must remain; not to be frequented or patronized, esp. by military personnel; out of bounds. Also transf. and fig.
1952R. Cutforth Korean Reporter xv. 137 Over the door an official army notice barked in iron-mouthed print: Strictly Off Limits. 1959Amer. Speech XXXIV. 155 As long as the infatuation lasts, the man is said to be attached and strictly off limits to other girls. 1960Encounter Feb. 38/1 The Negroes do not blame the residents but know that..the white G.I.'s in effect declare a town off-limits. 1968A. Diment Bang Bang Birds v. 58 We ain't going to take them out because they're brothels. If it was just that we'd mark them Off Limits to service personnel. 1968Economist 5 Oct. 46/3 The federation's leaders have declared the UAW-Teamsters group to be off-limits, describing it as ‘a dual labour organisation, rival to the AFL-CIO’. 1971‘S. Ransome’ Trap 6 (1972) xiii. 139, I didn't intrude into the investigators' office. So far as I'm concerned that's off limits. 1973A. Dundes Mother Wit 259 White females were off-limits to Negro males. 1975N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 9/1 In this central highlands town, which houses the legion's Corsican command post, three bars are off limits. |