| touch and go | |
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| (touch-and-go when prenominal) risky or critical: a touch-and-go situation | |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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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