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    touch-and-go

    adjective

    • 1. (of an outcome, especially one that is desired) possible but very uncertain: "it was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it overturned"

    noun

    • 1. a manoeuvre in which an aircraft touches the ground as in landing and immediately takes off again: "I tried a few touch-and-goes"

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  2. TOUCH-AND-GO definition: 1. If a situation is touch-and-go, it is uncertain: 2. If a situation is touch-and-go, it is…. Learn more.

  3. TOUCH-AND-GO meaning: 1. If a situation is touch-and-go, it is uncertain: 2. If a situation is touch-and-go, it is…. Learn more.

  4. The meaning of TOUCH-AND-GO is an airplane landing followed immediately by application of power and a takeoff and usually executed as one of a series for practice at landings. How to use touch-and-go in a sentence.

  5. Anything that's touch-and-go is precarious or uncertain. A doctor might gravely describe a patient's prognosis as touch-and-go, meaning that she's not certain whether the patient will recover.

  6. Touch and go definition: a precarious or delicate state of affairs. See examples of TOUCH AND GO used in a sentence.

  7. touch-and-go in British English. (ˌtʌtʃənˈɡəʊ ) adjective. risky or critical. I don't know for sure. It's a bit touch-and-go at the moment. a touch-and-go situation. It's touch-and-go with him. It's touch and go whether we'll make it in time.

  8. Define touch-and-go. touch-and-go synonyms, touch-and-go pronunciation, touch-and-go translation, English dictionary definition of touch-and-go. adj. Dangerous and uncertain in nature or outcome; precarious; delicate: major surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery.