Draw The Line

Definition: Draw The Line

Draw The Line

Verb

1. Reasonably object (to) or set a limit (on); "I draw the line when it comes to lending money to friends!".

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Synonym: Draw The Line

Discrimination

Verb: discriminate, distinguish, severalize; recognize, match, identify; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; separate the men from the boys; split hairs, draw a fine line, nitpick, quibble.

Crosswords: Draw The Line

I draw the line at seven unreturned phone calls. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

But I draw the line at defying gravity, so good luck. (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

Time to draw the line! (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

It's always complicated. And at some point someone has to draw the line and that is always going to be me! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

That's where I draw the line. (The Two Jakes; writing credit: Robert Towne)

It's high time to draw the line (Head Games; performing artist: Foreigner)

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Books

• Parents Teens and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "draw the line": draw the line at ♦ draw the line at that! ♦ one must draw the line somewhere. Additional references.

Albanian

vë kufirin, nuk e kaloj masën. (various references)

Arabic 

‏رسم الحدود (border, border on, determine). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отказвам да приема (draw the line at), не търпя (draw the line at). (various references)

Czech

netrpìt co. (various references)

Finnish

rajansa kaikella (one must draw the line somewhere). (various references)

French

fixer des limites. (various references)

Greek 

απαρνούμαι την εργασία. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקבוע �'בול (set a limit). (various references)

Hungarian

megvonja a határt (to draw a line). (various references)

Pig Latin

awdray ethay inelay

Portuguese

marcar a linha. (various references)

Romanian

pânã aici! mai mult nu permit (draw the line at that). (various references)

Russian 

провести линию, подвести черту. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povući crtu. (various references)

Spanish

poner límites (tie, tie down), hacer línea. (various references)

Turkish

yapmayı reddetmek, sınır çizmek, reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), aşmamak (limit oneself to, not to exceed, not to pass over). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: handwrite, headliner, herniated, inearthed, tailender, waterline, wealthier.

-3 letters: adherent, antherid, antiweed, antlered, dateline, detailer, detainer, elaterid, elaterin, entailed, entailer, haltered, handwrit, hardline, headline, herniate, lathered, leathern, lineated, neatherd, rehandle, renailed, retailed, retained, treelawn, treenail, whitened, whitener, wintered, withered, wreathed, wreathen.

-4 letters: airthed, alerted, aliened, aliener, altered, antired, arenite, atelier, delaine, detrain, dewater, diether.