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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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4 [idiom] words
keep counsel
make a clean breast
millstone around one's neck
toe the mark
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toe the mark
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Definition:
to toe the line, i.e. abide by the rules
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"[...] You's every one on ye got to
toe the mark
, I tell ye; quick,—straight,—the moment I speak. That's the way to keep in with me. Ye won't find no soft spot in me, nowhere. So, now, mind yerselves; for I don't show no mercy!"
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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