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toe the line
Idioms and Phrases
Also, toe the mark . Meet a standard, abide by the rules, as in The new director will make us toe the line, I'm sure , or At daycare Brian has to toe the mark, but at home his mother's quite lenient . This idiom refers to runners in a race placing their toes on the starting line and not moving until the starting signal. Its figurative use dates from the early 1800s.Example Sentences
With multiple ongoing crises and an increasingly unstable world, the United States needs journalists who refuse to toe the line more than ever.
He worked as a columnist for many years, but gradually fell foul of the Algerian government because of his refusal to toe the line.
Rodgers has practically begged the fans to toe the line.
Harris' campaign has attempted to toe the line between appealing to and assuaging the concerns of both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian voters.
Warner’s statements came a few months after announcing his campaign after years of toeing the line on the 2020 election.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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