0 present participle of tiptoe
1 to walk on your toes with the heel of your foot lifted off the ground, especially in order not to make a noise:
At present, she says, in a memorable phrase, he is ' tiptoeing round the margins of life ' (1991 : 7).
He goes tiptoeing through the tax field with his eyes not on the national interest but on party unity.
I approach this group of amendments with some trepidation, as though tiptoeing into a minefield.
Secondly, we are tiptoeing around our reforms of planning law.
He noted that many institutions are already "tiptoeing offshore".
He was tiptoeing away from monetarism, and was trying to smuggle in improvement past mummy like a naughty boy who has brought in some sweets.
I want to take further his analogy of the dead body with all of us tiptoeing around not knowing quite what to do with it.
She does not believe there is anything to be gained by tiptoeing around a subjects personal life.
