Tooth Grinder for the day

[alpharaposa]

Toe the line.

'Toe', not 'tow'.

Comments

[muffinmaneric.livejournal.com]

Here, here.

That was deliberate, for the record.

[that-guy-zach.livejournal.com]

in my platoon wing of the company barracks during Basic Training we had two yellow lines running down the room, when an NCO would step in the room the first person to notice was to call out "toes on the line and at ease" -- sounds like we were using the phrase very correctly.