touch-and-go
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In the touch-and-go struggle with Agathocles, the author identifies the “playbook that became the standard for warring against Carthage”: taking the fight to Africa and prying away the city’s local allies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
So if things seem touch-and-go in Illinois, at least it’s not Pennsylvania.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2025
The first season of the “RHONY” reboot was touch-and-go, so successfully dialing up the spectacle of it all could mean that Whitfield gets to keep her job.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
Another vice-captain from the World Cup, prop Ellis Genge, is touch-and-go for their opener in Italy on Saturday 3 February.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
For a little while it had been touch-and-go with him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
In a heartfelt social media post late Saturday, Martyn said it was touch and go whether he would live and the experience was a reminder of "how fragile life is".
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
But the appropriators have continued their work through this period… So it’s a touch and go day-by-day analysis that we have here as a leadership team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
“It was touch and go for a while!”
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025
By Monday night, those familiar with the whipping spreadsheet were warning that the situation was "touch and go".
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
It didn’t amount to much, though, and it was touch and go whether she’d have a decent funeral until Ruth walked down to Sonny’s Shop and stared at Macon without blinking.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
