"toe hold" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1959, John Knowles, chapter 11, in A Separate Peace",
          "text": "I waited for him to take it up, to unravel once again his tale of plotting statesmen and deluded public, his great joke, his private toe hold on the world.",
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          "ref": "1959, John Knowles, chapter 11, in A Separate Peace",
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