0 on your toes with the heel of your foot lifted off the ground -- 踮着脚尖
1 to walk on your toes with the heel of your foot lifted off the ground, especially in order not to make a noise -- 用脚尖走，踮着脚走
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.
