axidermy, "a line in the sand". steal someone's heart

The shoe designer Christian Louboutin loves taxidermy, but the idea of walking over a dead animal made him uncomfortable, so this embroidered tiger seemed the perfect solution. 1843 interviewed him about his six favourite objects

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Christian Louboutin: the tiger rug that stole my heart

A life in six objects

steal someone's heart

phrase of steal

1. win someone's love.

To Contain Iran, Trump’s Newest Line in the Sand Looks a Lot Like Obama’s

By DAVID E. SANGER

Embracing a one-year “breakout” period — a time limit on Iran’s ability to make fuel for a nuclear bomb — was at the heart of the 2015 accord that the U.S. left in May 2018.

• In 1990, US president George H. W. Bush described the initiation of the Gulf War as drawing "a line in the sand".

taxidermy

/ˈtaksɪˌdəːmi/

noun

1. the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect.

A line in the sand is a metaphor with two similar meanings:

• The first meaning is of a point (physical, decisional, etc.) beyond which one will proceed no further. An example would be a person who might agree to visit a bar with his friends, but will go no further (i.e. not partake in drinking alcohol).
• The second meaning is that of a point beyond which, once the decision to go beyond it is made, the decision and its resulting consequences are permanently decided and irreversible. An example would be to commit funds to completing a project (as opposed to deferral or cancellation); once committed, the funds cannot be spent on another activity, and the project will either succeed or fail.

Contents

• 1Origin
• 2Recent uses
• 3See also
• 4References

Origin[edit]

Biblical link to John 8:6. Some have (perhaps erroneously) interpreted Jesus' writing in the sand, as drawing a line in the sand in order to address those who are about to stone a woman caught in adultery. However, the literal translation is not that he drew a line in the sand, but that he "wrote" (or "drew lines" in some translations) in the sand, an important distinction.

The exact origin of the phrase is unknown: the Oxford English Dictionary suggests a transitional use from 1950, but a definitely figurative use only as late as 1978:

He drew a line in the sand with the toe of his boot, and said, 'It's as though I told you "I can punch you in the nose, but you can't reach across that line to hit me back."'

— The Washington Post, 19 December 1950

Notwithstanding the supposed public revulsion toward more federal spending, waste and bureaucracy-building, Congress seems to have gone out of its way to draw a wide line in the sand in front of Carter.

— The Washington Post, 29 October 1978^[1]