"draw the line" meaning in English

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      "form": "draws the line",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "drawing the line",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "drew the line",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawn the line",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "second sense",
          "word": "line drawing"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don't mind if they have some fun, but I draw the line at anything that might harm others.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 December 11, Tom Redburn, “Labor Standards: Where Britain Drew the Line”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:",
          "text": "By contrast, the British government draws the line at giving the Community a significant new role in setting minimum standards on working conditions, labor representation on corporate boards, and social affairs.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set a boundary, rule, or limit, especially on what one will tolerate."
      ],
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          "rule"
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          "limit",
          "limit"
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          "tolerate",
          "tolerate"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To set a boundary, rule, or limit, especially on what one will tolerate."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cross the line"
        },
        {
          "word": "draw a line in the sand"
        },
        {
          "word": "draw a line under"
        },
        {
          "word": "red line"
        }
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to set a boundary",
          "word": "sætte grænsen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to set a boundary",
          "word": "vetää raja"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to set a boundary",
          "word": "eine Grenze setzen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to set a boundary",
          "word": "Stopp sagen"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "draw the line"
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      "english": "second sense",
      "word": "line drawing"
    }
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    {
      "form": "draws the line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawing the line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drew the line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawn the line",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "cross the line"
    },
    {
      "word": "draw a line in the sand"
    },
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      "word": "draw a line under"
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    {
      "word": "red line"
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 December 11, Tom Redburn, “Labor Standards: Where Britain Drew the Line”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:",
          "text": "By contrast, the British government draws the line at giving the Community a significant new role in setting minimum standards on working conditions, labor representation on corporate boards, and social affairs.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To set a boundary, rule, or limit, especially on what one will tolerate."
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          "rule",
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        "(idiomatic) To set a boundary, rule, or limit, especially on what one will tolerate."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to set a boundary",
      "word": "sætte grænsen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to set a boundary",
      "word": "vetää raja"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to set a boundary",
      "word": "eine Grenze setzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to set a boundary",
      "word": "Stopp sagen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "draw the line"
}