under orders
under orders {adv. phr.}
Not out of one's own desire or one's own free will; obligatorily; not freely.
"So you were a Nazi prison guard? " the judge asked. "Yes, your Honor," the man answered, "but I was acting under orders and not because I wished to harm anyone."
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
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