toe the mark

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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

Then with the same charred stick he drew a mark on the floor and called for sopranos, alto, bass, and tenor to toe the mark.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

I tell you what it is, Mansfield, what the boys need is to go to some good boarding school, where they’ll be under strict discipline and have to toe the mark.

From The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out by Davenport, Spencer

I always supposed that he just rode around under the trees and made outsiders toe the mark.'

From The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis