be touch and go

Example Sentences

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"She needs to mobilise her voters to have a better chance to win this race. But it's going to be touch and go."

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Yet he admits that even with a heart transplant, it will be touch and go for the first year.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2014

It is going to be touch and go whether they stay up.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2014

I think they felt that it was going to be touch and go, the margins were going to be very tight, the medals would be spread right across the different nations.

From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2012

It will be touch and go, but, dressed as I am, I ought to have a chance.”

From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)