Mine is tow the line rather than toe the line.

I imagine someone as a tugboat--towing the line of what is expected. I like that imagery better than keeping a foot on some fucking line. Plus using toe as a verb is dumb.

What are yours?

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago

As for "toe," it's probably an old-school usage of a verb which is preserved in that phrase, but not carried on otherwise. Making it sound weird, today.

That would make it a fossil word (one of my favorite language quirks)!

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