touch-and-go

His loneliness “nearly killed him,” he said, acknowledging that he came close to acting on his suicidal ideation: “It was very touch and go at times.”

"It was so touch and go at every single show," he said.

“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.

It was the wrong time of year to grow the material that was salvaged from the iconic tree and things have been “touch and go”, Darryl Beck, who has been tending to the seedlings explains.

It was touch and go all the way to the very doors of the Royal Suite.