noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big
▪
The shoe pressed painfully against her big ~.
▪ little , pinky ( AmE )
▪ bare
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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.
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Ouch! That was my ~ you just trod on.
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She trod on a lot of ~s when she joined the company. ( figurative )
▪ stub
▪ break
▪ dip
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I dipped my ~ in the river to test the temperature.
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So far they have only dipped their ~ in the potentially vast computer market. ( figurative )
▪ point
▪ curl
▪ wiggle
▪ tap
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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
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He moved lightly on his ~s like a boxer.
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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 ~
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He gave himself a good scrub from head to ~.
▪ the tips of your ~s
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I stood on the tips of my ~s to look through the window.
▪ the ~ of your boot , the ~ of your shoe