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Definition of touch-and-go in English: touch-and-goadjective (of an outcome, especially one that is desired) possible but very uncertain. （尤指期待的结果）不确定的，无把握的 it was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it overturned 还不能肯定她能否在婴儿车翻倒之前赶到。 Example sentencesExamples - It's been touch-and-go several times with money, and we always manage to pull through at the last minute.
- I'd just started writing for City Pages and was well on my way to becoming a legitimate citizen after a rather touch-and-go adolescence.
- And when he had his own touch-and-go situation - a heart attack with quadruple bypass surgery - the roles flip-flopped.
- For a city of 25,000 with a touch-and-go economy, it would seem that Delft circa 1650 was anything but the provincial backwater it has often been labeled.
- Now it seems like he probably will, though it's still very touch-and-go.
- The first was one of the most underappreciated events of the 1990s: getting Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons, a touch-and-go process until the end.
- For the majority, reaching home dry is a touch-and-go affair as umbrellas are no use when the shower is accompanied by a strong breeze.
- Do you anticipate any additional touch-and-go maneuvers?
- Paddling on Lake Athabasca is a bumpy, touch-and-go affair.
- In a touch-and-go rescue attempt, Marcus is finally freed from the tree.
Synonyms uncertain, unsure, unclear, dubious, tight, delicate sticky, tricky, precarious, risky, in jeopardy, in danger, hazardous, dangerous, critical, unsafe, treacherous, suspenseful, cliffhanging, on thin ice, hanging by a thread informal hairy British informal dodgy
nounPlural touch-and-goes A manoeuvre in which an aircraft touches the ground as in landing and immediately takes off again. （飞机接地后）连续起飞 I tried a few touch-and-goes Example sentencesExamples - Maybe we could do our touch-and-goes at several different airports.
- For example, a plane that makes many flights or touch-and-goes during the year should have its landing gear lubricated.
- Obviously, this plane - this jet is not attempting those touch-and-goes at the Portland International Airport, otherwise you'd have to shut that down.
- He did 10 touch-and-goes on his next landing - I've never seen an airplane bounce so high so much, so far.
- The only things left to do were a section approach, rejoin for a depart, reenter to the break, and a few touch-and-goes for landing training.
- Thoroughly warm the aircraft engine by taking the plane up for some touch-and-goes or a quick trip to a local airport for the usual high-cholesterol breakfast.
- The three-hour flight included approaches and touch-and-goes at NAS Corpus Christi, NAS Kingsville, Kleberg Co. and Alice.
- We hadn't felt anything odd during any of our touch-and-goes, and the gear had retracted normally.
- The navigator was asleep, the flight engineer was doing touch-and-goes at his panel, and the pilots were task-saturated for the routine nature of what we were doing.
- This time the airwork and touch-and-goes were done at Stockton Airport.
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