make someone's toenails curl

English

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of make someone's toes curl.
    • 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      A professor has written an academic analysis of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, finding that – despite containing “some of the worst writing I have ever seen and a plot that made my toenails curl”—the erotic novel “is less pornographic than it is a self-help book”.
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