touch and go

[touch and go] {adj. phr.}

Very dangerous or uncertain in situation.

* /Our team won the game, all right, but it was touch and go for a while./

* /At one time while they were climbing the cliff it was touch and go whether they could do it./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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