on tiptoe

English

Prepositional phrase

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.

Synonyms

(adverbial): atiptoe, en pointe (ballet), tiptoeingly (rare)
(adjectival): atiptoe, tiptoeing

Translations

moving carefully

Bulgarian: на пръсти (na prǎsti)
Catalan: de puntetes
Esperanto: piedfingropinte
Finnish: varpaisillaan
French: sur la pointe des pieds (fr), à pas feutrés (fr)
Greek: ακροποδητί (el) (akropodití)
Hungarian: lábujjhegyen
Irish: ar na barraicíní
Russian: на цыпочках (na cypočkax)
Scottish Gaelic: air corra-biod
Spanish: de puntillas, en puntas de pie, de puntitas
Tagalog: nakatigda, patiyad, nakatiyad
Walloon: so ses tchåssetes (wa)
Welsh: ar flaenau'r traed

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