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The line you swear you'll never cross, redrawn nightly with fresh chalk.
means Right at the edge of a category — barely qualifying, almost-but-not-quite, or sitting on the boundary between two states.
from A plain compound of 'border' and 'line,' literally the line marking a border. 'Border' came into English from Old French 'bordure,' an edge or hem, ultimately tied to the same Germanic root as 'board.' The word started out geographic — the literal frontier between territories — before drifting into the figurative 'edge of acceptability' sense, and later into clinical use (as in 'borderline personality') for cases hovering on the threshold of a diagnosis.
- borderline collie
- Smartest dog breed; learns 1,000-plus words
- madonna hit
- Topped charts in 1984, defined her career
- medical term
- Hovers between normal and abnormal, diagnostically maddening
- latin root
- From bord, edge of a shield
- map relic
- Most national borders are under 200 years old
demilitarized zone korea — 38th parallel dividing north and south korea since 1953, 2.5 miles wide
us mexico border wall — 1,954 miles of barrier constructed between united states and mexico, expanded significantly 2017-2021