walk a tightrope

[walk a tightrope] {v. phr.}

To be in a dangerous or awkward situation where one cannot afford to make a single mistake.

* /"When we landed on the moon in 1969," Armstrong explained, "we were walking a tightrope till the very end."/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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