to the limit
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3.9
- idiom
:
hasta el límite
- You've always got to push things to the limit.
- push to the limit
- stretched to the limit
- carry to the limit
It was right up to the limit and doesn't go beyond it.
- It was right up to the limit and doesn't go beyond it.
- All I dare you to try to stretch it to the limit.
- And so for me, going here was going to test me to the limits.
- I think we're trying to get to the limit of what can and can't be said and we push it on a Friday with Jay.
- AD Hall reveals how he pushed his body to the limits and nearly died.
- And I've always pushed myself to the to the limit.
- Both their mind, their body, and their spirit gets pushed to the limits.
- But it was hard it it pushed me to the limit.
- Motorsport is about humans pushing themselves as close to the limit, as close to the red line as they can.
- And we, we push ourselves to to the limit and put people under, under pressures where they, you know, they think it's real.
- Now, now that Ryzen is a thing and it doesn't suck, well now they're just pushing it to the limit because freaking Yolo man.
Examples
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You have to push yourself and the car to the limit to be fast.
Blog text (23) -
In doing so, he helped inspire millions of young people across the world to push themselves to the limit, including Madam Deputy Speaker, myself.
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It's just that in this job, sometimes you got to go to the limit.
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So, let's take it to the limit one more time.
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We're here to enhance your skills, test you to the limit.
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He's taking it to the limit this time.
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I don't know if pushing yourself to the limit is healthy because sometimes when you're at your limit, you break.
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The Praetor pushed you to the limit of your endurance, but you never starved.
Fiction book (1992) -
Pushing his body and mind to the limit with the aid of scientific research and meticulous preparation, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge will hope to run 26.2 miles in under two hours and, in doing so, beat one of the great sporting barriers of our time.
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He trained for the marathon, running every day to the limit of his endurance.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Completely, with nothing left out
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1.4
As far as you can
68
4.1
Very determined and using all available effort
13
7.7
As much as possible
8
6.0
Completely and without holding anything back
8
2.7
As much as you can
7
4.6
To a very great degree
3
6.2
As much as possible
3
6.1
Very extreme in every way
1
9.2
To make something as intense or dramatic as possible
To do something as well as you can given the situation
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
to + the + limit
The meaning 'as much as possible' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'limit' denotes the highest degree and the preposition 'to' marks extent up to that point, with 'the' specifying it. This compositional pattern (meaning 'up to the maximum') is common across languages and follows standard English extent constructions, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase to the limit comes from the idea of a limit as a line or edge you cannot pass. To go to the limit is to push right up to that edge and use all your power or energy. That's why it now means 'as much as possible'.