Toe the line
Idiom meaning "to conform to a rule or standard" / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Toe the line" is an idiomatic expression meaning either to conform to a rule or standard, or to stand in formation along a line. Other phrases which were once used in the early 1800s and have the same meaning were "toe the mark" and "toe the plank".