touch-and-go

Adjective touch-and-go has 1 sense

• touch-and-go(s = adj.all) parlous, perilous, precarious - fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"