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I fear that such action will be viewed as crossing the Rubicon.Rubicon = a metaphor for a line, that when crossed permits no return
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Today the administration crossed the Rubicon by announcing it's new policy to...
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He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon. (source)
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His idea of Latin was Caesar subduing the Gauls and crossing the Rubicon, (source)Rubicon = referring to Caesar committing himself to war by crossing a river that was the boundary between Italy and Gaul
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Walking through the X-ray machine marked the first time I'd taken a step without oxygen in some months, and it felt pretty amazing to walk unencumbered like that, stepping across the Rubicon, the machine's silence acknowledging that I was, however briefly, a nonmetallicized creature. (source)stepping across the Rubicon = a metaphor indicating that Hazel sees herself taking a significant step
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Pockran also observes that a crisis is compounded of individuals and personalities, which are unique: It is as difficult to imagine Alexander at the Rubicon, and Eisenhower at Waterloo, as it is difficult to imagine Darwin writing to Roosevelt about the potential for an atomic bomb. (source)Rubicon = a river in northern Italy that Caesar crossed and thereby committed himself to war
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A pause — in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained. (source)Rubicon = a metaphor for a line, that when crossed permits no return, resulting in irrevocable commitment
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Mr. Botha had long talked about the need to cross the Rubicon, but he never did it himself until that morning at Tuynhuys. (source)cross the Rubicon = a metaphor for a line, that when crossed permits no return, resulting in an irrevocable commitment
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"Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said.† (source)
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What, in opposition to all the omens that declared against him, made Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon?† (source)
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Red Lake must be his Rubicon.† (source)
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[6] Curio the Tribune, banished from Rome, fled to Caesar delaying to cross the Rubicon, and urged him on, with the argument, according to Lucan, "Tolle moras, semper nocuit differre paratis.† (source)
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The Rubicon, we know, was a very insignificant stream to look at; its significance lay entirely in certain invisible conditions.† (source)
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The great wars of Africa and Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,—all this glory covers the Rubicon.† (source)
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Such a request, had it been complied with a year ago, would have won the heart and soul of the Continent—but now it is too late, "The Rubicon is passed."† (source)
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What after that it wrought, When from Ravenna it came forth, and leap'd The Rubicon, was of so bold a flight, That tongue nor pen may follow it.† (source)
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