1984 9 Aug. 39/1 The other week, I scored a letters double I'm still toe-curlingly pleased about.
2001 11 June 18/6 [He] may have fit the times when he made his speech as a 16 year old to rapturous applause, although one Tory grandee present at that 1977 party conference remarked, ‘He was toe-curlingly awful.’