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touch-and-go

 adjective
     
touch-and-go informal

it's touch-and-go

used about a situation in which there is a serious risk that something bad could happen:
It was touch-and-go whether the doctor would get there on time.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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