French term
Traduttore Arabo.Interprete Arabo.
Native in: Arabic 
, English
Works in: Italian to Arabic, Arabic to Italian, English to Arabic
On ne saurait aller jusque-là
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Proposed translations
Who said translation was hard?
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to French
We can't push that far
One/we would not know to go so far...
One/we would not know to go so far, and [as such] must content oneself/ourselves with a simple presumption susceptible to proof to the contrary.
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Without the knowledge required, we must settle for the simple answer and risk that it may be disproven.
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polyglot45
: sorry but this does not sound natural - and it is "savoir" in the sense of being able to do something
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there is a literal translation and a more natural translation. The second, which reads: "Without the knowledge required, we must settle for the simple answer and risk that it may be disproven." is what I would attest to. But again, without full context...
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philgoddard
: This sounds odd.
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United States
Six languages into flawless English
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 4 more.
we can't go that far
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polyglot45
: I can't agree or disagree without context but it could, by extension, mean," let's not get carried away", "let's keep things in perspective" -maybe asker will finally eludicate ????
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we couldn't see our way clear to going that far
Just wanted to register that this sort of construction is fairly common in (UK) commercial EN.
We can't go to that point
I think this might work.
I hope this helps.
Discussion
Cf: dictionnaire Petit Robert : II) savoir + infintif
4) au conditionnel et en tour négatif avec ne seul : pouvoir
"Couvrez ce sein que je ne saurais voir" (Molière) = que je ne peux voir, que je n'ai pas le droit de voir. "On ne saurait penser à tout" (Musset) = il est impossible de penser à tout.
Hope it helps.
This is without proper context and therefore would need to be confirmed by knowing what comes before