the sky is the limit

• the sky's the limit

the sky is the limit

1. Nothing is impossible or out of reach.

   If you have a refrigerator and a microwave at work, then the sky is the limit for what you can put in your lunchbox.

   • 2026 January 31, Danny Leigh, quoting Riz Ahmed, “Lunch with the FT: Riz Ahmed”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

     “I think the hidden mantra of British life is still ‘know your place’. Whereas over there [the US], it's ‘the sky's the limit’.”

• sky's-the-limit

• out of the question
• reach for the sky
• shoot the moon