on your toes

on your toes
On your toes
Someone on his or her toes is alert and ready to go.

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  • On Your Toes — Original Promotional Material Music Richard Rodgers Lyrics Lorenz Hart Book …   Wikipedia

  • Touch Your Toes — Infobox Single Name = Touch Your Toes Artist = Armand Van Helden featuring Fat Joe BL from Album = Ghettoblaster Released = 21 April 2007 (Australian release) Format = Digital Download, CD single Recorded = Genre = Club / Dance Length = 3:13… …   Wikipedia

  • On Your Toes — ist ein Musical mit der Musik von Richard Rodgers und Gesangstexten von Lorenz Hart. Das Buch entstand in einer Zusammenarbeit von Rodgers und Hart mit George Abbott. Die Uraufführung fand am 11. April 1936 im Imperial Theatre in New York statt.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • point your toes — to bend your foot down so that the top of it and the front of your leg form a straight line She forgot to point her toes when she dove into the water. • • • Main Entry: ↑point point your toes see ↑point, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑toe …   Useful english dictionary

  • touch your toes — phrase to bend, while keeping your legs straight, and touch your toes with your fingers, as a physical exercise Thesaurus: to do physical exercise as a way of keeping fithyponym Main entry: toe …   Useful english dictionary

  • on your toes — on (your) toes aware and energetic. Acting classes and occasional work in clubs keep the actor on her toes. Bob always looked for difficult assignments because he believed that challenging work helped him stay on his toes professionally …   New idioms dictionary

  • touch your toes — to bend, while keeping your legs straight, and touch your toes with your fingers, as a physical exercise …   English dictionary

  • make your toes curl — see ↑toe, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑curl make your toes curl informal : to cause you to have a very strong and usually unpleasant feeling (such as a feeling of being embarrassed, annoyed, etc.) Just thinking about my old boyfriend makes my toes curl.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • dip your toes in the water — If you dip your toes in the water, you try something tentatively because you are not sure whether it will work or not …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • make your toes curl — If something makes your toes curl, it makes you feel very uncomfortable, shocked or embarrassed …   The small dictionary of idiomes

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