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touch and go

 
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–noun
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.
Origin:
1645–55
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Cultural Dictionary

touch and go

Uncertain or precarious: “The doctors told the patient that, even though her disease was in remission, from now on it was touch and go.”

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
touch and go

  1. mod.
    chancy. : It was touch and go for a while, but we are out of the woods now.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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