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within bounds
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Idioms and Phrases
Reasonable and allowable, up to a certain point, as in It's all right to play your stereo, but please keep the volume within bounds . Like its antonym, out of bounds , this term originally referred to the boundaries of a playing area of field.Discover More
Example Sentences
Great as his interest in his subject might be, his ardor was held within bounds.
Never a branch will have to be shortened to keep it within bounds.
I noticed that he did not overstate anything, but spoke within bounds.
How easy, how very easy, it is to keep this kind of friendship—friendship between a man and a woman—within bounds!
When Glory has once fir'd a noble Soul, nothing can keep it within Bounds.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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