walk/tread a tightrope
If you walk/tread a tightrope, you have to deal with a difficult situation, especially one involving making a decision between two opposing plans of action:
Many manufacturers have to walk a tightrope between pricing their goods too high and not selling them, and pricing them low and losing money.
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Decisions and deciding
- be make or break for sb/sth idiom
- be on the horns of a dilemma idiom
- clinch
- clincher
- come down on one side of the fence or the other idiom
- come to sth
- decider
- fight
- hammer sth out
- head
- it's a date idiom
- judgment call
- lot
- make or break sth idiom
- make up your mind idiom
- mind
- name
- name the day idiom
- spin a coin idiom
- toss
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