"step out of line" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "steps out of line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepping out of line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped out of line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped out of line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "step out of line"
      },
      "expansion": "step out of line (third-person singular simple present steps out of line, present participle stepping out of line, simple past and past participle stepped out of line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield",
          "text": "It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Trudier Harris, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South, LSU Press",
          "text": "By recalling the lynching and imagining that as the “rightful” place for black men who step out of line, Jesse, the sheriff, can collect his nerves sufficiently to confront the demonstrators",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Henry Jacoby, Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords, John Wiley & Sons, page 176",
          "text": "If you step out of line and indulge in immoral acts, you're breaking the contract with your fellow citizens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Chris Hamilton, On the Path to Enlightenment, Balboa Press, page 65",
          "text": "We have been conditioned from early childhood to be afraid; if we step out of line we will not be accepted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To break the rules of society."
      ],
      "id": "en-step_out_of_line-en-verb-N91w~WD~",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To break the rules of society."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cross the line"
        },
        {
          "word": "fall in line"
        },
        {
          "word": "toe the line"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "poiketa ruodusta"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "aus der Rolle fallen"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "sgarrare"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "wyłamywać się"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "wyłamać się"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "salirse del tiesto"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "step out of line"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "steps out of line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepping out of line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped out of line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped out of line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "step out of line"
      },
      "expansion": "step out of line (third-person singular simple present steps out of line, present participle stepping out of line, simple past and past participle stepped out of line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cross the line"
    },
    {
      "word": "fall in line"
    },
    {
      "word": "toe the line"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield",
          "text": "It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Trudier Harris, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South, LSU Press",
          "text": "By recalling the lynching and imagining that as the “rightful” place for black men who step out of line, Jesse, the sheriff, can collect his nerves sufficiently to confront the demonstrators",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Henry Jacoby, Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords, John Wiley & Sons, page 176",
          "text": "If you step out of line and indulge in immoral acts, you're breaking the contract with your fellow citizens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Chris Hamilton, On the Path to Enlightenment, Balboa Press, page 65",
          "text": "We have been conditioned from early childhood to be afraid; if we step out of line we will not be accepted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To break the rules of society."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To break the rules of society."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "poiketa ruodusta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "aus der Rolle fallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "sgarrare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "wyłamywać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "wyłamać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "salirse del tiesto"
    }
  ],
  "word": "step out of line"
}