Definitions
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- verb walk on one's toes
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Examples
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Skwad members tippytoe owt an clik awf the lite as they goe.
Ai has a wonder about… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Skwad members tippytoe owt an clik awf the lite as they goe.
OMG! We find tomb - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Skwad members tippytoe owt an clik awf the lite as they goe.
Ai has a wonder about… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Skwad members tippytoe owt an clik awf the lite as they goe.
At first i was like… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Skwad members tippytoe owt an clik awf the lite as they goe.
crumpled under weight of own cuteness - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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You will undoubtedly see many a joyous gain over the long term by investing in wines from Second-Tier châteaux, but ultimately you should extinguish any dreams that these wines might just one day muster enough demand to tippytoe their way up into the stratospheric price levels attained by stars like Latour or Ausone or Pétrus.
Investing in Liquid Assets David Sokolin 2008
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You will undoubtedly see many a joyous gain over the long term by investing in wines from Second-Tier châteaux, but ultimately you should extinguish any dreams that these wines might just one day muster enough demand to tippytoe their way up into the stratospheric price levels attained by stars like Latour or Ausone or Pétrus.
Investing in Liquid Assets David Sokolin 2008
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And he couldn't tippytoe despite the buried eggs, another of which blew up a soldier not too far from him.
Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002
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They've tippytoe here and then they'd go back to Washington and they'd tippytoe there.
President Remarks To People Of Des Moines Ia ITY National Archives 1994
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I couldn't figure out why, until I got to Washington and all the establishment in Washington tried to get me to tippytoe, too.
President Remarks To People Of Des Moines Ia ITY National Archives 1994
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