| 单词 | to draw the line at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto draw the line at (b) colloquial. To set a limit on what one is willing to do or accept. Frequently in to draw the line at. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > at a certain point or specified limit subsista1639 stop1737 to draw the line1839 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > refuse to do something warnc900 withsaya1225 wondec1315 refusea1325 denya1400 nayc1400 recusec1425 renayc1489 renounce1582 disclaim1586 to draw the line1839 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby lii. 517 ‘We don't shave gentlemen in your line,’..‘Why, I see you a shaving of a baker when I was a looking through the winder, last week,’ said the coal-heaver. ‘It's necessary to draw the line somewheres my fine feller... We draw the line there.’ 1881 Scribner's Monthly Jan. 409/2 Feathers an' flowers is different things. You must draw the line somewhere, an' I draw it at feathers. 1956 W. E. Collinson in Moderna Språk 50 13 Even today the British printer would draw the line at the f-word used in Lady Chatterley's Lover. 1986 New Statesman 26 Sept. 24/1 Mike Terry of Anti-Apartheid says..they draw a line when it comes to British publishers making a commercial venture out of South Africa. 2018 New Yorker 10 Sept. 54/2 She drew the line at covering her hair, as some Jewish modesty laws require. < as lemmas |
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