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
If you want to make the best of it, toe the mark.
From Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Optic, Oliver
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
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
