toe-curling English

Meaning toe-curling meaning

What does toe-curling mean?

toe-curling adjective

— Causing feelings of acute embarrassment.

— causing feelings of acute embarrassment

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In fact, the game being played out in Europe is less like chess than like tic-tac-toe, where a draw is the normal outcome, but a wrong move means certain defeat.

Fortunately he did not, because he had little patience for bureaucracy, long meetings, and the need to toe an official line.

In order to ensure a credible process, Cambodia and the UN must select judges of the highest caliber, not those that toe a party line.

Turkey's effort to fine and imprison those who do not toe the official line convinces me that I was correct to oppose opening negotiations on the country's European Union membership.

The consequence is a country divided between loyal and disloyal, patriotic and unpatriotic - that is, between those who toe the party line and those who refuse.