But god forbid we prosecute a wealthy white woman for perjury. That would just be beyond the pale.

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      10 months ago

      It’s a phrase echoing back to the Roman Empire. A pale is a fence in Latin so it means “outside the fence”. We still call individual vertical elements of a fence palings.