Toe the line which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves." The expression is used in a Beatles song—"Trying just to make you "toe the line"" in 1965's "Run for Your Life"—and is the basis for Rocky Burnette's 1980 hit song, "Tired of Toein' the Line". Toe the line "Toe the line" is an idiomatic expression meaning either to conform to a rule or standard, or to stand poised at the starting line in a footrace. Other phrases which were once used in the early 1800s and have the same
1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) whole collection of records, sampling tons of stuff and putting it all together, and it ... was a real rush of excitement, when we were doing it... When we put that record out, we knew what we were doing was illegal, but we thought it was gonna be such an underground record, nobody would ever hear about it. So the first thing that shocked us is that British rock papers gave a big review. "1987" is built around samples of other artists' work, "to the point where the presence of original material becomes questionable". The album is raw and unpolished,