Advertisement
Advertisement
touch-and-go
adjective as in risky
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.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse