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Idiom Sky's the Limit
Example Order anything on the menu—the sky's the limit,
Meaning there's no limit to what you can spend or how far you can go or what you can achieve
Origin The idea of the sky being the limit goes back to at least the 1600s; even then people saw no limit to the sky. The exact wording of this idiom in English is from the 1900s. It might have been used in gambling to indicate that there was no limit to the size of a bet someone could make. Today, you can apply this description to many other situations in life.

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