From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishkick over the traceskick over the tracesBritish English old-fashioned to start behaving badly by refusing to accept any control or rules → kick
Examples from the Corpus
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. 