off-limits

off·-limits (-lim′its)

adjective

designated as a place that cannot be entered, visited, or patronized by a specified group

Preposition: for

year: This valley was off-limits for many years owing to its proximity to the sensitive Tibetan border.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: Alternatively, you may make an entire directory off-limits.

Used with adjective complement

remain: Please, don't tell me you are accepting the IPR lobby's line that the current regime of IPR protection must remain off-limits.
declare: By the time the causeway did open, Sanibel had been declared largely off-limits to the developers.
consider: But in the song Dear Mr President, she's going for the kind of target most chart stars consider off-limits.

Modifying Another Word

strictly: It was also sobering to realize that only seven years ago such a tour would have been strictly off-limits.
now: Today's visitors to Ani must explore the ruins under the supervision of armed soldiers and most of the extensive site is now off-limits.
officially: Their island was officially off-limits; it had been ' sold ' to the U.S. military.
usually: Why not explore the usually off-limits areas of Londonâs theaters with backstage tours, to see what they have to offer?
absolutely: Saddam International Tower is a ghost tower - absolutely off-limits to any cameras.
largely: By the time the causeway did open, Sanibel had been declared largely off-limits to the developers.

Modifies a noun

area: Why not explore the usually off-limits areas of Londonâs theaters with backstage tours, to see what they have to offer?

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