beyond the pale
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- Used other than as an idiom: beyond the extent or limit#Noun|limits (of the thing named).
- (idiomatic, of a behaviour or person) Outside the bounds of morality, acceptable behaviour or good judgement, etc.
- French: inacceptable, inadmissible, (to be beyond the pale) dépasser les bornes
- German: eindeutig die Grenzen überschritten, völlig indiskutabel, indiskutabel, vollkommen inakzeptabel
- Russian: вне ра́мок прили́чия
- Spanish: al margen de la sociedad, mas allá de los límites, fuera de lugar, inaceptable, intolerable, insoportable, pasar de castaño oscuro, pasar de la raya, clamar al cielo
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