| 1. | a precarious or delicate state of affairs: It was touch and go there for a while during the operation. |
| 2. | quick action or movement: the touch and go of city traffic. |
[tuhch-uhn-goh] 
| 1. | risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain. |
| 2. | hasty, sketchy, or desultory. |
Uncertain or precarious: “The doctors told the patient that, even though her disease was in remission, from now on it was touch and go.”
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touch and go
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]
