be touch and go

"The decision at the meeting will be touch and go, however, and dependent on financial markets continuing to stabilise between now and next week's policy meeting," they said.

It appears it’s going to be touch and go next week to see which teams can play, forcing schools and coaches to bring back the strategy of last spring, when they had to rapidly find replacement games when one school can’t play and hope their administration agrees to last-minute replacements.

“To be honest, it was going to be touch and go. Everything had to be spot on to give myself a chance to play pain-free and to play knowing that I could trust my body,” Barty said.

“But at the same time, we have to continue to be careful, continue to follow the rules, because many people are still caught between taking the vaccine not taking the vaccine. And it’s going to be touch and go here because there’s so much distrust in our country, and so much distrust in the people who have been in charge for years.”

“With Christian Pulisic I think it’s going to be touch and go for the start of the season,” Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said on Friday.