touch-and-go

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touch-and-go [tach-an-gou]

sustantivo

1. Situación sumamente incierta o precaria.

adjetivo

2. Incierto, casual, inestable.

touch-and-go [ˈtʌtʃənˈɡəʊ]

noun

it's touch-and-go whether he'll survive no se sabe si sobrevivirá; it was touch-and-go whether we'd arrive before we ran out of petrol no estaba nada seguro de que la gasolina nos fuera a dar para llegar; we made it, but it was touch-and-go lo conseguimos, pero por los pelos (informal)

it's touch-and-go whether ... it was touch and go whether we'd go bankrupt

adjective

[+decision] difícil; dudoso

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