Meaning of touch and go | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.
   obsolete
2. Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).

Examples

“Madam, I’m gone; no wonder, for you know, Lovers' encounters are but touch and go.”

“His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.”

“I could sense it was touch and go whether I could get the lay.”

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