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tightrope

 noun
     
Related topics: Performing
tight‧rope [countable]
1AP a rope or wire high above the ground that someone walks along in a circus
2

walk a tightrope

to be in a difficult situation in which something bad could happen if you make a mistake:
I feel as though I'm walking a tightrope between success and failure.
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