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The most extreme; someone or something that irritates, delights, or surprises to the ultimate degree. For example, Hiring and firing someone the same day—that's the limit in employee relations! or That excuse of yours for missing the wedding, that's the limit , or He's done wonders before but this last one is the limit . This idiom uses limit as “the last possible point or boundary.” [ Colloquial ; c. 1900]

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Captain Callum McGregor believes the "sky is the limit" for this team under Rodgers, but what is left for Celtic to achieve?

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But Eubank weighed 0.6lb below the limit and avoids a second fine.

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"It stings that I was 0.05lbs away from the limit and now I'll have to pay half a million to someone. These are the people you are dealing with. They closed the scales off early," said Eubank.

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Knowles is optimistic, saying "the sky's the limit" when it comes to what her daughters might do next.

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But Verstappen races hard, and pushes the limit of the rules.

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