toe the mark
Example Sentences
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Surrogate parents are hired who will be less subject to favoritism in making their children "toe the mark."
From Time Magazine Archive
Overnight, he became the watchdog of the war effort, scourging shortages, prodding production, forcing the manufacturers, the Army & the Navy to toe the mark.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother of eight children, she is, and makes 'em toe the mark at school and Sunday school.
From Shining Ferry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
If he had, he'd have put Jack on to it, in spite of all Pauline's money; but since it's too late for that I must toe the mark.
From The High Heart by King, Basil
I'm goin' to make Nat toe the mark until he is twenty-one.
From From Farm to Fortune or Nat Nason's Strange Experience by Alger, Horatio
