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
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 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'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
