toeholdnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtəʊ.həʊld/us/ˈtoʊ.hoʊld/toehold noun [ C ] (IN ROCK)
a small hole or surface on a rock that is just big enough for a climber to put the end of his or her foot in or on:
I searched desperately for a toehold in the rock face.
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Mountaineering & rock climbing
- abseil
- bag
- base camp
- bivouac
- bivvy
- bivvy sack
- climb
- climbing
- crampon
- foothold
- footing
- free running
- hold
- mountainboarding
- mountaineer
- mountaineering
- Munro-bagging
- rappel
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toehold noun [ C ] (STRONG FIRST POSITION)
a strong first position from which further progress can be made:
Insurance is a very difficult market to get a toehold in.
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Opportunity
- a free ride idiom
- another/a second bite at/of the cherry idiom
- best bet idiom
- bite
- break
- chance
- half
- it's now or never idiom
- look in
- make hay while the sun shines idiom
- manqué
- miss
- op
- pass
- the American dream
- the run of sth idiom
- the world is sb's oyster idiom
- there are plenty more fish in the sea idiom
- too good to miss idiom
- window
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