Idioms
See tiptoe in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryon tiptoe/tiptoes
- standing or walking on the front part of your foot, with your heels off the ground, in order to make yourself taller or to move very quietly
- She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the top shelf.
- We crept around on tiptoes so as not to disturb him.
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