touch-and-go

  • (s) fraught with danger
    • dangerous waters
    • a parlous journey on stormy seas
    • a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat
    • the precarious life of an undersea diver
    • dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery
    parlous, perilous, precarious,

Synonyms

parlous perilous precarious

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