Meaning of tightrope walk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instance of walking on a tightrope.
2. A perilous course between alternatives.
   figuratively

Examples

“Stunts like tightrope walks and barrel plunges were later banned at the falls, with fines of up to $10,000.”

“In 1859, French acrobat Charles Blondin dazzled Americans with his tightrope walks, the most famous of which were his repeated crossings of Niagara Falls.”

“As for the Logan siblings, Kendall likens his latest showdown with his father to “a tightrope walk on a straight razor ... Five-hundred-foot reputational drop.””

“Mr. Donofrio's strategy is a tightrope walk. He is trying to preserve as much of the traditional mainframe business as possible, while remaking the big machines, replacing their large, power-hungry processors with more efficient computer-on-a-chip microprocessors, which drive work stations and personal computers.”

“The RSS mouthpiece, meanwhile, termed this as a historical opportunity but cautioned that running the government would be a tightrope walk. “Though running this government will be a tightrope walk, especially for the PDP, if interests of the people of J&K are kept in mind, this will be a historic opportunity,” said the Organiser, adding “keeping away from the pressures of separatist tendencies, focusing completely on development and providing transparency in governance would be key in this regard.””

“Not since Philippe Petit stepped onto a wire surreptitiously rigged between the towers of the late, lamented World Trade Center in 1974 has there been a tightrope walk as perilous and as public as Ivanka Trump’s.”

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