toe the mark
Example Sentences
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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
Surrogate parents are hired who will be less subject to favoritism in making their children "toe the mark."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ted is afraid that Madame will make her toe the mark," Hubert said teasingly.
From Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen by George, Vesper L.
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
It was a never-changing form to which Philomel Whiffet clung as an example for the whole school to follow should they be called to toe the mark.
From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine
