off-limits
Americanadjective
adjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of off-limits
An Americanism dating back to 1950–55
Example Sentences
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No matter how exclusive the party, there’s always a pecking order, and the coolest people—the actors—hang out in a room that’s off-limits.
But chaos erupted on Monday evening in the heart of Australia's largest city as police tried to prevent a rally from marching into an area designated off-limits.
From Barron's
It was a new and startling thing to me for ordinary friendship to be as off-limits as romance could be.
From Literature
And his startup, which had long been off-limits to U.S. users, was cleared to launch a betting app for them.
H200s are roughly 18 months behind the US company's most state-of-the-art offerings, which will still be off-limits to China.
From Barron's
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