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UK
/tˈəʊhəʊld/
]
[ US /ˈtoʊˌhoʊɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈtoʊˌhoʊɫd/ ]
NOUN
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a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made
his father gave him a toehold in the oil business
American diplomacy provided a toehold on which to proceed toward peace talks - a wrestling hold in which the toe is held and the leg is twisted against the joints
- a small foothold used in climbing
How To Use toehold In A Sentence
- And now NDB and FMB have another toehold in the schools. Can In-Class Huckstering Make Milk Drinking Cool?
- They didn't abandon their culture, and they didn't even really change it - they just got a toehold on prosperity.
- This ‘additional functionality’ should be removed, he advises, and the operating system secured so attackers cannot get the necessary toehold on the system.
- He has struggled long and hard to keep this one-room toehold in "Jozi," one of WISTV - Local News RSS
- This before using a toehold to propel themselves six feet into thin air in order to grab the next fingerhold. Times, Sunday Times
- Having established a toehold, the parent company then looks to expand with further acquisitions.
- The gang had strong ties to Brighton Beach, the traditional first toehold in the United States. CHAMELEON
- The memories of the Gathering and everything that had happened since that awful night could gain no toehold here. TREASON KEEP
- Minor blister pain can advance from a low simmer to a fiery torture in the space of a few miles, so don't let it get a toehold in the gap between your feet and your socks and shoes.
- Few independent comic artists have succeeded in gaining a toehold in the lucrative spin-off market.