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touch-and-go

adjective as in hasty

adjective as in life-threatening

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Example Sentences

START ratification is touch-and-go, too, since, being a treaty, it requires a two-thirds majority to pass.

And still the grizzled old skipper would go on, though it was touch-and-go every time a sequence of strong seas came howling down.

Saved me a bothering touch-and-go play to get you out here and seem innocent.

“Ay, if we are once free,” muttered the master, who was not at all of the touch-and-go school.

I was glad that when riding this road in the dark I had not realised it was in quite such a touch-and-go condition.

Watching our chances, the rest of us swarmed up between swells, but it was touch-and-go all the time and took a long while.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to touch-and-go, such as: dangerous, delicate, hazardous, parlous, perilous, and precarious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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