| 词汇 | toe-curling |
| 释义 | toe-curling adjective UKinformaluk /ˈtəʊˌkɜː.lɪŋ/ us /ˈtoʊˌkɝː.lɪŋ/ making you feel extremely embarrassed and ashamed for someone else: 令人极其尴尬的;使人十分害臊的 I saw the worst comedy act I've ever seen last night - it was absolutely toe-curling!昨晚我看到了我所见过的最糟糕的喜剧表演——真替他害臊！ Embarrassing awkward blushingly cringe cringe at something cringe comedy cringeworthy cringey curl curl up and dieidiom embarrass embarrassing information painful put someone on the spotidiom show show up spare spare someone's blushesidiom spot TMI Related wordtoe-curlingly Examples of toe-curlingtoe-curling He gives a toe-curling analysis of the additional costs that he, as a small family business man, faces from the increased inspection charges. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It's a toe-curling car crash. From Wikipedia This 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. |
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