“Crossing the Rubicon” means you’ve crossed a certain line and can’t go back. It refers to a real place, now a river in Italy, where Julius Caesar’s army crossed into Rome. His action broke the law, leading to a civil war and, eventually, the dawn of the Roman Empire.
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