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 I held that office Colonel Colby would expect me to toe the mark all the time just as an example to the others.
From The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up by Stratemeyer, Edward
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
I’ll make him toe the mark here, see if I don’t.
From Dorothy on a Ranch by Raymond, Evelyn
