crossing the Rubicon

[Kati Svaby]

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #327 "English Slang Idioms (48)", question 4

If you knowingly enter false information into the accounting program, you are going to be ......... the Rubicon -- you won't be able to go back and fix it.

(a) fording
(b) crossing
(c) wading
(d) swimming

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #327 "English Slang Idioms (48)", answer 4

If you knowingly enter false information into the accounting program, you are going to be crossing the Rubicon -- you won't be able to go back and fix it.

Correct answer: (b) crossing
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...you are going to be crossing the Rubicon ...does it mean that you are passing a point of no return?
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Beeesneees]

Yes.

Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River into Italy (against the Roman Law which prevailed at that time) and started a civil war. He had publicly declared himself to be a threat and was past the point of no return.

This is quite complex:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/caesar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon
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Cheers m' dears!

[Kati Svaby]

Hi Bz,

Even yesterday evening I printed the two tales about The Boy Who Cried Wolf and J.C.Crosses the Rubicon and before sleeping I read it. I can recommend these links to everybody who likes the stories.

EyeWitness to History.com
storyarts.org/library/aesops.../boy.html

of course I am so old that I knew this stories, but to read that's something else.

Thanks: Kati
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Kati Svaby]

...these stories.../ Why am I so inattentive? Always to make mistakes!!!/
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.