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Keep in line   /kip ɪn laɪn/   Listen
Keep in line

verb
1.
Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage.  Synonyms: control, manipulate.  "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up" , "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line" , "She keeps in line"






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"Keep in line" Quotes from Famous Books



... way forward, steadily and carefully. Let each man watch his neighbour, to the right and left, and keep in line ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

... the twelve White have pinned the right-hand wing of Black, 1 to 9 inclusive, there is nothing for Black to do but to order his right wing, 1 to 9, to retreat as fast as possible before superior numbers, and to order his left wing, 10 to 16, to fall back at the same time and keep in line; and you then have the singular spectacle of twelve men compelling the retreat of ...
— A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase • Hilaire Belloc

... "A" Company of the 5th. This side was to move inwards, clearing the old British trenches with the bayonet as it reached them. On the right was "A" Company, clear of the trenches, which fell to others, so that "A" Company's duty was to clear their side of Suffolk Ridge and keep in line with the company on their left. From the information gained by our patrols we did not anticipate that "A" Company would meet with any opposition. The Turkish position to their front was some 200 yards farther on than ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison



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