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vb. (context idiomatic English) To undertake a precarious course of action.
Usage examples of "walk a tightrope".
Bertrand Russell once said, 'You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes.
It's not as if I am sending them into the unknown, or making them walk a tightrope across burning coals.
And how a first officer must walk a tightrope between saying too little and saying too much?
He had to walk a tightrope-- publishing enough to get psychohistory taken seriously, but not so much that anybody outside the Second Foundation could ever duplicate or continue his work.
He had to walk a tightrope--publishing enough to get psychohistory taken seriously, but not so much that anybody outside the Second Foundation could ever duplicate or continue his work.
Rango was an orangoutang, who could walk a tightrope carrying a parasol.
One of the great philosophers of this century, Bertrand Russell, said many years ago, 'You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes.
I walk a tightrope above the vent of a volcano, he thought grimly.