Meaning & use
touch-and-go
Describing a risky or uncertain situation whose outcome could go either way at any moment.
See it in a sentence
The patient's condition was touch-and-go for two days after the surgery.
It was touch-and-go whether the team would finish the bridge before the deadline.
A note on using this word
Touch-and-go is almost always used predicatively, after a linking verb like 'be' or 'seem,' rather than directly before a noun.
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