get out of line

This, apparently, is what the country is lacking in its leadership: A parent who loves her children equally, and wants the best for them, but also knows that it is in the children’s interest to be corrected when they get out of line.

NoNo: I mean, if these people behind us trip, I’ll just get out of line.

You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.

“People of Arizona: Don’t get out of line until you cast your vote,” Trump wrote.

“My message to the people in Arizona is do not get out of line until you’ve cast your vote,” Ms. Lake told reporters outside a polling station on the downtown campus of Arizona State University.