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make someone's toenails curl

make someone's toenails curl is the alternative form of make someone's toes curl.

Meaning of make someone's toes curl

Verb

make someone's toes curl (third-person singular simple present makes someone's toes curl, present participle making someone's toes curl, simple past and past participle made someone's toes curl)

  1. To cause a strong emotional reaction, especially an unpleasant one.
    • For every good thing in the week, there was something to make one's toes curl.1983 October, Listener and BBC Television Review, page 27

Forms of make someone's toenails curl

third-person singular presentmakes someone's toenails curl
present participlemaking someone's toenails curl
past participlemade someone's toenails curl
pastmade someone's toenails curl

Questions about make someone's toenails curl

What is make someone's toenails curl the alternative form of?
Make someone's toenails curl is the alternative form of make someone's toes curl.

Words near make someone's toenails curl in the dictionary

  1. make someone's head spin
  2. make someone's jaw drop
  3. make someone's skin crawl
  4. make someone's skin creep
  5. make someone's teeth itch
  6. make someone's toenails curl
  7. make someone's toes curl
  8. make something of
  9. make something of oneself
  10. make sport of
  11. make strange

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