The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
draw the line at, to
To set a specific limit, particularly on one’s behav- ior. This expression, heard in such contexts as “He drew the line at outright cheating,” comes from drawing some sort of boundary, but no one is quite certain as to what kind. Some speculate it comes from the early game of court tennis, in which the court had no specific dimensions and the players had to draw their own lines. Others believe it signified a line cut by a plow across a field to designate the property boundary. The term was used figura-
tively from the late eighteenth century on and was probably a cliché by the
time W. S. Gilbert wrote, “I attach but little value to rank or wealth, but the
line must be drawn somewhere” (H.M.S. Pinafore, Act I).
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