beyond the pale, topless, beyond doubt

Unmistakable signs of a thaw in the frozen relations between China and Japan are growing. Indeed, the betting now is that Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, will meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in November. Until now, China has considered Mr Abe beyond the pale because of his visit last December to Tokyo's imperialist Yasukuni shrine http://econ.st/1rzJbfg

 Royals sue over topless picturesThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have launched legal action against the French magazine Closer over its publication of topless pictures of the...



"Other deserving painters who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s, often working small and usually beyond the pale of Abstract Expressionism, include Alice Trumbull Mason, Beauford Delaney, Steve Wheeler, Loren MacIver and Lois Dodd — who, by the way, is still making art."





Quotation of the Day: "The report makes for chilling reading. The findings are beyond doubt and beyond the pale. This is a war crime." -- Ban Ki-Moon, secretary general of the United Nations, on confirmation of the chemical weapons attack in Syria.

 beyond doubt
 allowing no uncertainty:you’ve proved it beyond doubt


beyond the pale
 outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour:the language my father used was beyond the pale

Outside the bounds of morality, good behavior or judgment; unacceptable. For example, She thought taking the boys to a topless show was beyond the pale. The noun pale, from the Latin palum, meant "a stake for fences" or "a fence made from such stakes." By extension it came to be used for an area confined by a fence and for any boundary, limit, or restriction, both of these meanings dating from the late 1300s. The pale referred to in the idiom is usually taken to mean the English Pale, the part of Ireland under English rule, and therefore, as perceived by its rulers, within the bounds of civilization.






 topless 上空

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[tɑ'plis | tɔ'p-]
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[形]

1 〈女性・衣服が〉トップレスの；〈バーなどが〉トップレスの女性を呼び物にしている. ⇒BOTTOMLESS[形]4

2 セックスをオープンに扱う

topless radio
（ラジオ番組の）セックス相談室.

3 ((古))非常に高い.

━━[名]（複〜・es）

1 トップレスのウエートレス［ダンサーなど］.

2 トップレスの服（水着など）.

3 （トップレスの女性がサービスする）トップレスバー［レストラン, ナイトクラブ］.