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the limit

Idioms  

  1. The most extreme; someone or something that irritates, delights, or surprises to the ultimate degree. For example, Hiring and firing someone the same day—that's the limit in employee relations! or That excuse of yours for missing the wedding, that's the limit, or He's done wonders before but this last one is the limit. This idiom uses limit as “the last possible point or boundary.” [Colloquial; c. 1900]

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The Mercedes engine has been measured by the FIA at both ambient and operating temperature and complied with the limit of 16:1 at all times, senior F1 insiders have told BBC Sport.

From BBC

This timeframe differs from what is being proposed at Westminster and Holyrood where the limit would be set at six months.

From BBC

So when Verstappen, Alonso and co talk about the degree of energy management required with this year's new hybrid engines, are they saying that they are no longer ever driving on the limit of grip in the corners?

From BBC

They all said they were still on the limit of the grip the vast majority of the time, that skill still mattered, that a faster driver would still beat a slower one.

From BBC

"But for the rest, you're still pushing to the limit even if the limit is a bit lower at the moment. But it's not feeling out of this world. Once we get used to the differences in some corners, you just adapt your driving style. And then it feels like normal."

From BBC

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