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off limits /ˌɒf ˈlɪmɪts /1Out of bounds: the site was off limits to the public...- Perhaps we should have dug deeper because it's quite apparent now that the whole topic was off limits.
- Up to recently these waters were off limits to Western travelers.
- Anything to the right of yellow is strictly off limits.
1.1Not to be mentioned or discussed: it was apparent that the whole topic was off limits...- Methodology in turn falls under the gaze of epistemology, the investigation of investigation itself - nothing is off limits to scientific questioning.
- I honestly don't know why this argument is off limits.
- You may remember that he did a Today interview with John Humphreys in which Iraq was off limits.
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