touch and go
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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
In a heartfelt social media post late Saturday, Martyn said it was touch and go whether he would live and the experience was a reminder of "how fragile life is".
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
But the appropriators have continued their work through this period… So it’s a touch and go day-by-day analysis that we have here as a leadership team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
“He’s been battling it since spring training … and since he’s been back, it’s been kind of touch and go, good, then not good,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
For a frantic half hour it was touch and go.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
In the touch-and-go struggle with Agathocles, the author identifies the “playbook that became the standard for warring against Carthage”: taking the fight to Africa and prying away the city’s local allies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
So if things seem touch-and-go in Illinois, at least it’s not Pennsylvania.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2025
The first season of the “RHONY” reboot was touch-and-go, so successfully dialing up the spectacle of it all could mean that Whitfield gets to keep her job.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
"It was really touch-and-go whether or not she would pull through and make it."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
After the first, touch-and-go year, my father’s chain of hot dog restaurants began to make him a comfortably wealthy man.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
