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In response to "Related, are there any more phrases like crossing the Rubicon, beyond the Pale, etc. I was trying to think of more the other day for something." by Loyola

"Caught the last train for the coast" (sort of); "Blow this pop-stand." There is one about Mt. Etna, too, something...

... about when the sunrise strikes the top of the mountain, a very high elevation accessible on foot... but I can't place it. It's in a c. 1950 French novel about Marcus Aurelius.

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