tread on someone's toes
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tread on someone's toes
verb treads on someone's toes · treading on someone's toes · trod on someone's toes · tread on someone's toes
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To offend someone.
Similar: step on someone's toes
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tread, toes.
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