TOE


Meaning of TOE in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ big

The shoe pressed painfully against her big ~.

▪ little , pinky ( AmE )

▪ bare

Under his bare ~s the floor felt gritty.

▪ broken , stubbed

the pain of a stubbed ~

VERB + TOE

▪ stand on , step on , tread on ( esp. BrE )

She stood on her ~s to kiss him.

Ouch! That was my ~ you just trod on.

She trod on a lot of ~s when she joined the company. ( figurative )

▪ stub

▪ break

▪ dip

I dipped my ~ in the river to test the temperature.

So far they have only dipped their ~ in the potentially vast computer market. ( figurative )

▪ point

▪ curl

▪ wiggle

▪ tap

She tapped her ~s to the music.

▪ touch

Can you touch your ~s (= while keeping your legs straight) ?

TOE + VERB

▪ curl ( often figurative )

The man's broad smile made her ~s curl (= made her feel uncomfortable) .

TOE + NOUN

▪ injury

PREPOSITION

▪ between the/your ~s

He had some kind of fungus between his ~s.

▪ on your ~s

He moved lightly on his ~s like a boxer.

The threat of inspections kept us all on our ~s (= made sure we kept everything up to standard and were ready) . ( figurative )

PHRASES

▪ from head to ~ , from top to ~

He gave himself a good scrub from head to ~.

▪ the tips of your ~s

I stood on the tips of my ~s to look through the window.

▪ the ~ of your boot , the ~ of your shoe

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .