draw a line between

1. Also, draw the line between. Define a limit between two groups, courses of action, or the like. For example, Legally it's important to draw a line between private and public enterprises, or We'll have to draw the line between our department's different jurisdictions. This metaphoric idiom was first recorded in 1793. Also see draw the line at.

Example Sentences

"It is important to draw a line between what is happening in the Middle East and what is happening at home," Mahmood told BBC Breakfast on Friday.

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Some of this he talks out with an ethnographer named Mark de Rond who suggests that it’s empowering to draw a line between good and evil.

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Here, we have to draw a line between the removals and the detention.

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Constitution, saying the state was free to draw a line between public safety and other unions, and the following year again ruled that the law was constitutional.

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In the clay world, he said, there’s always talk about functional versus nonfunctional pottery, attempting to draw a line between the two.

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