kick over the traces

[kick over the traces] also [jump the traces] {v. phr.}

To break the rules; behave badly.

* /When their teacher was absent and they had a substitute, the children kicked over the traces./

Compare: ACT UP, CUT UP, LET LOOSE, OUT OF HAND, RAISE CAIN.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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