touch-and-go

adj [usu pred 通常作表语] (infml 口) uncertain as to the result 无法确定结果; 无把握: It was touch-and-go whether we would get to the airport in time. 我们是否能按时到机场还很难说. * The patient is out of danger now, but it was touch-and-go (ie uncertain whether he would survive) for a while. 病人现已脱离危险, 但曾有一度吉凶未卜.

toss, toss a coin, toss-up, tot, total, totalitarian, totalitarianism, totality, totalizator, totalisator, totally, tote, totem, totem-pole, totter, tottery, toucan, touch, touch off, touch on, touch up, touch-judge, touch-line, touch-type, touchdown, touche, touched, touchily, touchiness, touching, touchingly, touchy, tough, tough (also toughie / 5tQfI; `tQfI/), toughen, toughness, toupee, tour, tour de force, tourism, tourist,