List of antonyms from "totter" to antonyms from "tour"


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Definition of the day : « touch-and-go »

  • adj risky
  • adj hasty
Example sentences :
  • I have here a passage from the diary, where it seems to have been touch-and-go.
  • Extract from : « Records of a Family of Engineers » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "It's been touch-and-go as it is," he murmured, pressing his hand against his side.
  • Extract from : « Sonia Between two Worlds » by Stephen McKenna
  • He managed to elude his fellow-countrymen as it happened, but it was "touch-and-go" with him.
  • Extract from : « The adventures of Kimble Bent » by James Cowan
  • Facts showed that our belief was right, though it was a touch-and-go chance.
  • Extract from : « People of Destiny » by Philip Gibbs
  • It is a touch-and-go affair; the stimulus presses the button and then subsides, while the neural organization does the rest.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
  • But it was no joking matter with, me either, my dear fellow; it was touch-and-go at the time.
  • Extract from : « A Thief in the Night » by E. W. Hornung
  • It was touch-and-go with me all the time from the soup down, I assure you.'
  • Extract from : « A Diversity of Creatures » by Rudyard Kipling
  • It had been only touch-and-go, but the man's warm Irish heart had saved him.
  • Extract from : « The Littlest Rebel » by Edward Peple
  • These touch-and-go experiments form no part of the strict duties of the chulo; his exclusive province is the banderilla.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852 » by Various
  • There is not much chance of Empathy and Empathy's pleasures and pains in their lightning-speed, touch-and-go visions!
  • Extract from : « The Beautiful » by Vernon Lee