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Dictionary: touch-and-go   (tŭch'ən-gō')
adj.
Dangerous and uncertain in nature or outcome; precarious; delicate: major surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery.


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adjective

    Requiring great tact or skill: delicate, sensitive, ticklish, touchy, tricky. See easy/hard.

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Extremely uncertain or risky, as in It was touch and go after the surgery; we were not sure he'd survive it, or It was touch and go but they finally gave me a seat on the plane. This idiom implies that a mere touch may cause a calamity. [Early 1800s]


Games: Touch and Go
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  • Release Date: 1995
  • Genre: Sports
  • Style: Volleyball
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: fraught with danger
  Synonyms: parlous, perilous, precarious


 
 
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