Toehold - What does it mean?
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has no English definition.
(rock climbing) A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
(by extension) Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 151:
*:Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan.
*2009 , Alan Travis, The Guardian , 8 Dec 2009:
*:One in three "adult-kids" who have not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because they cannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting.
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