Adjective : a touch-and-go descent down the mountain. From Dictionary.com.
Financing and incentives can also be touch-and-go. From Wordnik.com. [SolarCity aims to make solar power more affordable] Reference
Every time I'd think about it, it was touch-and-go. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Mornings]
We're going to do a touch-and-go and climb back away. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference
Well, things were touch-and-go, especially out there. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George R. Elmore, March 11, 1976. Interview H-0266. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
NGUYEN: It was a little touch-and-go there for a while. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008] Reference
There wouldn't be fuel enough for another touch-and-go. From Wordnik.com. [Countdown]
In a touch-and-go economy, it's all the more important. From Wordnik.com. [Waving Goodbye to 2008] Reference
Danbury may be touch-and-go; it may not quite get there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2006] Reference
I say, touch-and-go attire of the majority of the members. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
As you know, Realms is in a touch-and-go period right now. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference
Ed, it looks like it is touch-and-go between deal or no deal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference
(Voice over): Sometimes communication is touch-and-go in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2006] Reference
The pilot was actually practicing a maneuver called touch-and-go. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 29, 2008] Reference
What was the, if anything, touch-and-go in the Stark situation, Jim?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2002] Reference
It stirs my blood now to think of the touch-and-go fury of that fight!. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
On his agenda was giving a lesson to David in "touch-and-go" landings. From Wordnik.com. [Climbing the Mountain]
(It was touch-and-go as to whether Lynne F's question would be reached.). From Wordnik.com. [Of course the death of Baby P is a political matter] Reference
A big catfish is touch-and-go, but the casting tackle gives you a chance. From Wordnik.com. [Crappie Commando] Reference
I'm going to let my pilot, Supa, kind of take us in here for a touch-and-go. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference
There were some touch-and-go moments, but he did land safely in Salina, Kansas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2005] Reference
So how touch-and-go might it be when we talk about jaundice and 3-day-old baby?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2007] Reference
It had been touch-and-go aboard the Dickinson and the Pauly for a while, though. From Wordnik.com. [Countdown]
I didn't like to say much about it, but it was a pretty near touch-and-go affair. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
It was for me one of those touch-and-go situations in which only time would tell. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual Life] Reference
This touch-and-go sort of battling was too strenuous even for the giant Cimmerian. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
But the plus is that I can take it regularly, rather than on a touch-and-go basis. From Wordnik.com. [Nine for Mortal Men Doomed to Die | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference
It was touch-and-go as to whether or not the shah's army would shoot down the plane. From Wordnik.com. [The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis] Reference
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Carol, if you can hear me, we're coming in for a touch-and-go. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference
Supa, can you give them a little rundown of what we did as we come in for a touch-and-go?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference
The girl's lost the baby she was carryin ', and it seems to be touch-and-go for her, too. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Lawman]
"It was even touch-and-go as to whether we would be having this debate here this afternoon.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
“It was touch-and-go until the last three or four weeks of the campaign,” said Mr. Aurelio. From Wordnik.com. [Summer of Glove!] Reference
Washington is considering a series of proposals to save this touch-and-go healthcare reform bill. From Wordnik.com. [Rose Ann DeMoro: The Dummy's Guide to Healthcare Reform] Reference
U.S. Forest S.rvice's Jim Paxon saying today that the fight out there in trenches is touch-and-go. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Million Mom March Under Way in Washington - May 14, 2000] Reference
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