toe the line

1. 1.

   do what is expected

   Broadercomply

Questions about toe the line

What does toe the line mean?

toe the line means "do what is expected".

Is toe the line a common word?

toe the line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.