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on tiptoe

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on tiptoe
standing or walking on the front part of the feet (the balls of the feet) with no weight put on the heels. (This is done to gain height or to walk quietly.) I had to stand on tiptoe in order to see over the fence. I came in late and walked on tiptoe so I wouldn't wake anybody up.


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They were met by a deacon with a censer and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them.
She stole on tiptoe to the window, as cautiously as if she conceived some bloody-minded villain to be watching behind the elm-tree, with intent to take her life.
Mortimer said that the man had walked on tiptoe down that portion of the alley.
 
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