step out of line
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“If they step out of line they face being returned to closed conditions immediately,” they said.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
"That is why it is so important from Warsaw's perspective not to step out of line and create a larger coalition," he said.
From Reuters • Jan. 23, 2023
Beyoncé loves her family, but don’t expect that love to extend if you step out of line.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022
What I’ve heard from others is that you don’t step out of line.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2022
For just as we, his American cousins, are threatened with Island confinement, military school is what's in store for Mundín should he step out of line.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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