Voorbeelden van tiptoe

• If that is so, he has tiptoed away like a pantomime villain, with his finger on his lips.

• 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.

• He tiptoed away from the whole question of a decommissioning policy.

• However, it is wrong that a merger can go through quietly, on tiptoes, secretly, without those who are mainly concerned in the firm being brought into the discussions.

• He tiptoed round the course with great delicacy, but it appears that the old rate support grant system, with all its crudity, unfairness and across-the-board treatment, had certain attractions.

• There the post-prandial speaker went on at interminable length until the audience tiptoed out of the room one by one, leaving a solitary guest at the end of the table.

• Classical form elongates itself, shimmers, rises on tip-toe; it glides, it loses substance, becomes idealised.