Toe Curl

Hi,

good

Clive

Let's say a cat licked a girl on the cheek, and

"It made her toes curl."

According to this http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/toe?q=toe, did the girl feel good or bad?

CliveHi,It sounds odd to suggest a girl would feel like that if a cat licked her cheek.But it suggests that she liked it.Are you going to ask now about a snake, or a goldfish?Clive

Clive:
I was just confused about the two seemingly contradictory meanings of "make somebody's toes curl". So, for:

"[SOMETHING] touched her. It made her toes curl."

make one's toes curl: to cause you to have a very strong and usually unpleasant feeling (such as a feeling of being embarrassed, annoyed, etc.)(taken from M-W Learner's Dictionary)

ex) Just thinking about my old boyfriend makes my toes curl.

So I guess it is usually used to expresss an unpleasant feeling.

p.s. just wondering what type of breed your dog is,

CliveH,I've never heard the expression used in a negative sense.Clive

So, "to make someone's toes curl" means that someone will always feel good after receiving the action?