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tightrope
[ tahyt-rohp ]
verb (used without object)
- to walk, move, or proceed on or as on a tightrope:
He tightroped through enemy territory.
verb (used with object)
- to make (one's way, course, etc.) on or as on a tightrope.
tightrope
/ ˈtaɪtˌrəʊp /
noun
- a rope or cable stretched taut above the ground on which acrobats walk or perform balancing feats
- to be in a difficult situation that demands careful and considered behaviour
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tightrope1
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Idioms and Phrases
see walk a tightrope .Discover More
Example Sentences
The heir to a tightrope walking family has tried some crazy stunts in his day.
The self-styled ‘Art Criminal’ dazzled onlookers and made history when he tightrope walked between the WTC towers 40 years ago.
All weekend reporters in eastern Ukraine were walking a bizarre tightrope, of prurience, politesse, and ghoulishness.
The clan had a tightrope act that went horribly wrong in 1962.
To this day, the family still enthusiastically explores tightrope walking.
There were washed out trails where the ride would be in the nature of tightrope walking.
One thing that we must suppose he particularly liked was a wonderful tightrope walker.
Douglas Fairbanks is doing a little tightrope walking on the telegraph wires.
The famous Blondin was going to perform on a tightrope in another part of the garden.
When a performer falls from the tightrope, who remembers all the times he has not failed?
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