I was yesterday years old when I learned something new. While writing my Daily-Ink post I used the idiom, ‘toe the line’… but I spelled it ‘tow the line’, and my phone autocorrected it to ‘toe’.

What? How did I not know this?

I was 100% sure that it was ‘tow’. I thought that to ‘tow the party line’ meant ‘to follow’, as in ‘to be towed along with’ what was expected of you… But it’s ‘toe’!?!

I now needed to look it up:

“The most likely origin of the term goes back to the wooden decked ships of the Royal Navy during the late 17th or early 18th century. Barefooted seamen had to stand at attention for inspection and had to line up on deck along the seams of the wooden planks, hence to “toe the line”. ~ Wikipedia

Please tell me I’m not the only one who got this wrong!