on tiptoe

Meaning

Standing elevated on the tips of one's toes.

Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily on the tips of one's toes.
We crept out on tiptoe so as not to awake the children.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

sneaking tiptoe on the qui vive atiptoe tiptoeingly en pointe tiptoeing

Antonyms

asleep avowed

Examples

Hebe was also assigned several lines of dialogue after No. 18 ("Carefully on tiptoe stealing") and again after No. 19 ("Farewell, my own"). Source: Internet

He played right back to the bouncers, standing on tiptoe, and played them with a dead bat, sometimes playing the ball one handed for more control. Source: Internet

Louise becomes concerned when Scott points out that she no longer needs to stand on tiptoe to kiss him. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

on tiptoe

Close letter words and terms

on tick on tilt on time on to on to land on to the land