off limits

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off limits

1. if an area is off limits, you are not allowed to enter it. When we were kids, our parents' bedroom was definitely off limits.

2. not allowed. Today's magazines tackle the sort of subjects that would once have been considered off limits. What he does make very clear is that questions about his private life are off limits.

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