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
And the old lady magpie looked at him out of her little black eyes as much as to say: "I wish I had that bunny boy to bring up, I'd make him toe the mark."
From Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures by Barbour, Harold S.
After this I guess he’ll toe the mark!
From First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Stratemeyer, Edward
Mother of eight children, she is, and makes 'em toe the mark at school and Sunday school.
From Shining Ferry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
