touch-and-go
adjective
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Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).
“His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.”
noun
- 1
A landing on a runway immediately followed by a takeoff without an intervening full stop.
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