• blarghly@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      This isn’t a language thing. It’s an idiom. We are imagining you are a soldier or something, and your commander has drawn a line on the ground where you must put your toes in order to stand in formation. Hence, “toe the line” means to follow your commander’s orders / to do what everyone else is doing.