Meeting a Deadline

padyer | 12:03 Tue 06th Aug 2002 | Phrases & Sayings

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Where does the term 'Deadline' come from in the expression Meeting a Deadline.

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One of the earliest meanings of 'deadline' was an actual line drawn around a prison's perimeter, beyond which a prisoner, if spotted, would be shot at and possibly rendered 'dead'! It became associated with a cut-off point in publishing newspapers only in the 1920s. Perhaps the same sort of thinking lay behind it...the journalist had better not overstep it or he'd be in trouble.

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