It tiptoes from a dainty, toned-down trap pulse into a stirring vocal hook that re-arouses your resentment for that ex-lover.
All Coward's major comedies end in escape; the protagonists tiptoe away from chaos.
Diplomats hope that it will encourage both nations to tiptoe back from the brink of war.
Maybe the Labour party is effectively dead, and he is right to tiptoe away from the corpse.
While they trash the drawing room, Coward, as he does in all his major comedies, lets his comic surrogate tiptoe away from the chaos.
In Hay Fever and Private Lives characters tiptoe away from domestic wrangles, while Design For Living is a passionate plea for bohemian licence.
As the curtain falls, Sybil and Victor are pummelling each other; Elyot and Amanda tiptoe away from the chaos and out the door.
The country has entered an "era of political brinkmanship," in which lawmakers may "tiptoe back from disaster, with delaying mechanisms, before embarking on yet more brinkmanship," writes Gillian Tett in a column in The Financial Times.
At the end of the play, the protagonists tiptoe away from chaos, but in the Roundabout's production the cast ambles offstage, only to return for a sing-along of "I'll See You Again".
