英语单词“toe-curling”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 toe-curling 释义 toe-curlingadjectiveUKinformaluk

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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Embarrassing

• awkward
• cringe
• cringe comedy
• cringe-making
• cringeworthy
• cringey
• curl
• curl up and dieidiom
• embarrass
• embarrassing
• embarrassingly
• information
• painful
• putsomeoneon the spotidiom
• show
• show up
• spare
• sparesomeone'sblushesidiom
• spot
• too much informationidiom

Related word

toe-curlingly(Definition oftoe-curlingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftoe-curling

toe-curlingHe gives atoe-curlinganalysis of the additional costs that he, as a small family business man, faces from the increased inspection charges.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It's atoe-curlingcar crash.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/toe-curling##