Antonyms for touch-and-go

Grammar : Adj

Spell : tuhch-uh n-goh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʌtʃ ənˈgoʊ

Definition of touch-and-go

adj risky
adj hasty

Example sentences :

I have here a passage from the diary, where it seems to have been touch-and-go.
Extract from : « Records of a Family of Engineers » by Robert Louis Stevenson

"It's been touch-and-go as it is," he murmured, pressing his hand against his side.
Extract from : « Sonia Between two Worlds » by Stephen McKenna

He managed to elude his fellow-countrymen as it happened, but it was "touch-and-go" with him.
Extract from : « The adventures of Kimble Bent » by James Cowan

Facts showed that our belief was right, though it was a touch-and-go chance.
Extract from : « People of Destiny » by Philip Gibbs

It is a touch-and-go affair; the stimulus presses the button and then subsides, while the neural organization does the rest.
Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

But it was no joking matter with, me either, my dear fellow; it was touch-and-go at the time.
Extract from : « A Thief in the Night » by E. W. Hornung

It was touch-and-go with me all the time from the soup down, I assure you.'
Extract from : « A Diversity of Creatures » by Rudyard Kipling

It had been only touch-and-go, but the man's warm Irish heart had saved him.
Extract from : « The Littlest Rebel » by Edward Peple

These touch-and-go experiments form no part of the strict duties of the chulo; his exclusive province is the banderilla.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852 » by Various

There is not much chance of Empathy and Empathy's pleasures and pains in their lightning-speed, touch-and-go visions!
Extract from : « The Beautiful » by Vernon Lee

Synonyms for touch-and-go

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