Wiktionary
vb. 1 (&lit tiptoe around English) 2 To act very cautiously about something; to avoid speaking about a painful or controversial issue.
Usage examples of "tiptoe around".
So I've been sitting on the other side of that mirror and listening to them tiptoe around what is really a very straightforward proposition.
The last thing she wanted was for her girls to feel as if they had to--Tiptoe around and speak in whispers like you did when a Certain Somebody was in one of his moods.
And then, after a pause, They have been walking on tiptoe around me this past half hour, Loren and Matt.
When I was at Goddess Keep, everyone walked on tiptoe around Andrade all winter long.
I don't have the energy to spare to tiptoe around your feelings, Frost.
We smile a lot and try to be merry and eat all our vegetables and tiptoe around, scared of making a sound.
I tiptoe around for a while before looking in on him to find that he’.
Or just kinda tiptoe around and whisper, on account of you're a college person?
Your governments and philosophers were overjoyed to learn that the galactic surround is incomprehensible to us, and have been happy to tiptoe around the sleeping dragon ever since.
When he got there, he cooled his heels in the back row for a while, watching Ludmilla and the other swan maidens tiptoe around the stage.