kick over the tracesBritish EnglishBrE old-fashioned to start behaving badly by refusing to accept any control or rules (开始)摆脱约束,不服管束kick over the traces• But perhaps even misogynists can kick over the traces.• They fall down and get up again; they educate themselves and kick over the traces.• If one of them kicked over the traces, there was hell to pay until he fell obediently back into line.
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