toe the mark
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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
You've got to toe the mark pretty straight with him, Amateur; but if it so be you strike him just right things will move along in great shape.
From An Amateur Fireman by Otis, James
I took jolly good care to toe the mark, till he'd married me all right.
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
It's becoming in the young," she said, piously; then, with a cheerful gleam, "but all old women should be defiant—yes, they should study a dictatorial style, and make the young ones toe the mark.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth
