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To draw a line in the sand or to draw the line marks a clear limit that someone refuses to cross.
The idiom comes from the idea of drawing a line across the ground to show where one side ends and the other begins.
The idiom comes from the idea of drawing a line across the ground to show where one side ends and the other begins.
The manager said cutting staff was a line in the sand for the team.