touch-and-goadjective
uk/ˌtʌtʃ.ənˈɡəʊ/us/ˌtʌtʃ.ənˈɡoʊ/informalC2 If a situation is touch-and-go, it is uncertain:
The doctor says that it's touch-and-go whether Mary will be okay.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- tenuous
- there's no knowing idiom
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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