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- adverb On
tiptoe .
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Examples
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Harvey is one of my favorite films and worth seeing just for Stewart's performance...a remake, even a 're-imagining' is a very bad idea - you can't make the same film because audiences have changed and changing the film for more modern times just doesn't make any sense - a guy like Dowd would be locked up in an instant today and all the crazy stuff with his sister wouldn't happen. atiptoe
Tom Hanks Won’t Star In Spielberg’s Harvey; Who Will? | /Film 2009
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Like Elwood, guilelessly funny in Kate and leopold. atiptoe
Tom Hanks Won’t Star In Spielberg’s Harvey; Who Will? | /Film 2009
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It went about like a mother who has found her child asleep at play, and who steals away atiptoe, finger on lip, lips smiling tenderly.
Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926
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