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
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
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.
They found the discipline on the warship very strict and were called on to "toe the mark" continually.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
