toe to toe
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Positioned facing another, with the toes touching.
adv
At the same level as someone else.
adv
Against, in direct opposition.
Example Sentences
- "standing toe to toe"
- "go toe to toe with someone"
- "It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody."
- "Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News."
- "It’s a grim stalemate that has taken on the rhythms of a heavyweight title bout, with each side going toe to toe in one of the longest-running battles of the war."