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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.Advertisement
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