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Red line (phrase)
The Red line, or "to cross the red line", is a phrase used used worldwide to mean a figurative point of no return or line in the sand, or "a limit past which safety can no longer be guaranteed."
==Origins==
The origin of the phrase in English traces back to the "Red Line Agreement" agreement in 1928 between largest oil companies of Britain, the USA and France at the time of the end of the Ottoman Empire. At the time of signature, the borders of the empire were not clear and to remedy the problem an Armenian businessman named Calouste Gulbenkian, took a red pencil to draw in an arbitrary manner the borders of the divided empire.
The expression remained significant to global diplomacy and was reused during the UN's founding after the WWII, especially in the Anglophone world. France, is unique to refer to it as the "yellow line" (''franchir la ligne jaune'').〔Alexander Melnik, Professor of Geopolitics. (Diplomatie : d'où vient l'expression "franchir la ligne rouge" ? )〕
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