touch and go

Значение

so uncertain that it could easily end badly

Настолько неясно, что может кончиться плохо.

Примеры

1. 1It was touch and go whether we'd catch the last train, but we just made it.
2. 2For a while it was touch and go whether the café would survive the winter.
3. 3Getting the cake ready in time was touch and go, but it came out of the oven just before the guests arrived.
4. 4With two big clients gone, it's touch and go for the company this year.
5. 5The plane landed safely in the end, but it was touch and go during the storm.

Грамматика

Стоит после be, часто с it: it was touch and go. Перед существительным пишется через дефисы: touch-and-go.

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