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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| touch and go | |
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| (touch-and-go when prenominal) risky or critical: a touch-and-go situation | |
Uncertain or precarious: “The doctors told the patient that, even though her disease was in remission, from now on it was touch and go.”
touch and go definition
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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]