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toeing the line
verb as in obey the rules
Example Sentences
Warner’s statements came a few months after announcing his campaign after years of toeing the line on the 2020 election.
In June French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire summoned 75 retailers and consumer groups to a meeting about prices, and has accused manufacturers of not toeing the line on inflation.
William George, the director of research at Import Genius, said that Poly Technologies “may be toeing the line on exactly what constitutes lethal aid to Russia,” but that the implications of the shipments were clear.
His sculptures from this time look like whimsical industrial castoffs or colorful yet mangled theatrical masks, toeing the line between objects and bodies, abstraction and figuration.
Benn shouldn’t have been toeing the line like that, but with the benefit of hindsight, Grubauer shouldn’t have been trying to sell that call.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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