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the sky is the limit

the sky is the limit proverb: nothing is impossible or out of reach.

Proverb

the sky is the limit

  1. Nothing is impossible or out of reach.
    • If you have a refrigerator and a microwave at work, then the sky is the limit for what you can put in your lunchbox.
    • “I think the hidden mantra of British life is still ‘know your place’. Whereas over there [the US], it's ‘the sky's the limit’.”2026 January 31, Danny Leigh, quoting Riz Ahmed, “Lunch with the FT: Riz Ahmed”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

Forms of the sky is the limit

alternative formthe sky's the limit

Words formed from the sky is the limit

Questions about the sky is the limit

What does the sky is the limit mean?
The sky is the limit means nothing is impossible or out of reach.
What part of speech is the sky is the limit?
The sky is the limit is a proverb.

Words near the sky is the limit in the dictionary

  1. the show must go on
  2. the sigma
  3. The Sisters
  4. the skibidi
  5. the sky fell in
  6. the sky is the limit
  7. the sky will fall on your head
  8. the sky's the limit
  9. The Sleepless
  10. The Slopes
  11. the snot out of

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