"fall in line" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls in line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling in line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell in line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen in line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> in line"
      },
      "expansion": "fall in line (third-person singular simple present falls in line, present participle falling in line, simple past fell in line, past participle fallen in line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Anna Maynard Barbour, chapter 18, in That Mainwaring Affair",
          "text": "It will be to your interest to accept my suggestions and fall in line with my plans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 2004, Career Soldiers, Won't Waste My Life",
          "text": "If I had your life I'd put my throat to a knife,\nFill your days with emptiness, but I don't have the time;\nI won't grow up, I won't fall in line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To submit to the rules of a higher authority; obey; conform."
      ],
      "id": "en-fall_in_line-en-verb-EYEbmdeP",
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "obey",
          "obey"
        ],
        [
          "conform",
          "conform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To submit to the rules of a higher authority; obey; conform."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Philippine English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to line up"
      ],
      "id": "en-fall_in_line-en-verb-lxMa9NJF",
      "links": [
        [
          "line up",
          "line up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines) to line up"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "35 65",
          "word": "toe the line"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "35 65",
          "word": "knuckle under"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "rette ind"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "totella"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "olla ruodussa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "rentrer dans le rang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pasar por el aro"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/En-au-fall_in_line.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall in line"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Translation table header lacks gloss"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls in line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling in line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell in line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen in line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> in line"
      },
      "expansion": "fall in line (third-person singular simple present falls in line, present participle falling in line, simple past fell in line, past participle fallen in line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "toe the line"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Anna Maynard Barbour, chapter 18, in That Mainwaring Affair",
          "text": "It will be to your interest to accept my suggestions and fall in line with my plans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 2004, Career Soldiers, Won't Waste My Life",
          "text": "If I had your life I'd put my throat to a knife,\nFill your days with emptiness, but I don't have the time;\nI won't grow up, I won't fall in line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To submit to the rules of a higher authority; obey; conform."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "obey",
          "obey"
        ],
        [
          "conform",
          "conform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To submit to the rules of a higher authority; obey; conform."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Philippine English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to line up"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "line up",
          "line up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines) to line up"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/En-au-fall_in_line.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "knuckle under"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "rette ind"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "totella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "olla ruodussa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "rentrer dans le rang"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "pasar por el aro"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall in line"
}