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be beyond the pale

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be beyond the pale
if someone's behaviour is beyond the pale, it is not acceptable. Her recent conduct is beyond the pale.
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To depend upon this valley for sustenance she now saw to be beyond the pale of possibility because of the banths that would keep her from food and water by night, while the dwellers in the towers would doubtless make it equally impossible for her to forage by day.
 
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