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What is a toehold?

What is a toehold? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rock climbing) A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
  2. (by extension) Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress.
  3. (wrestling) A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.
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He realises that his party is battling hard to retain a toehold in what was once its bastion.
Younger workers, who have used computers their entire lives, are now gaining a toehold in the workplace.
Having established a toehold, the parent company then looks to expand with further acquisitions.
Janet carefully swung one leg over the sill and rested her small foot on the narrow toehold as she shifted the rest of her through the opening.
If any form of sexual license is condemned then it leaves a toehold for other forms of sexual license to be condemned.
One step after another I fumbled for a toehold, my legs weak and my grip moist.

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