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
If I held that office Colonel Colby would expect me to toe the mark all the time just as an example to the others.
From The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up by Edward Stratemeyer
Then with the same charred stick he drew a mark on the floor and called for sopranos, alto, bass, and tenor to toe the mark.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
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 Edward Stratemeyer
