| 单词 | toe the line |
| 释义 | toe the lineSEE SYNONYMS FOR toe the line ON THESAURUS.COM 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. Words nearby toe the linetoepiece, toerag, toe reflex, To err is human, to forgive divine, toeshoe, toe the line, toetoe, toe-to-toe, toey, TOFC, toff 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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