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
I’ll make him toe the mark here, see if I don’t.
From Dorothy on a Ranch by Raymond, Evelyn
"I'd like to see a good, big, husky man get the upper hand of Jelly once, and just make her toe the mark!"
From Just Patty by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
Oliver Cromwell loved her dearly, but he and her father had their hands full trying to make Dick "toe the mark."
From Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various
