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
Young man," said the Colonel, "if you fail I'll make you toe the mark.
From Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker)
He calls our names, and we walk on to the platform and toe the mark and make a bow and say what we have got to say.
From Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl by Richards, Caroline Cowles
I took jolly good care to toe the mark, till he'd married me all right.
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
