touch-and-go

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsparlousperilousprecarious

   Similardangerous

Questions about touch-and-go

What does touch-and-go mean?

touch-and-go means "fraught with danger".

How many syllables are in touch-and-go?

touch-and-go has 3 syllables: tou-ch-and--go. The stress falls on "tou".

What is another word for touch-and-go?

Close synonyms include parlous, perilous, precarious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is touch-and-go a common word?

touch-and-go is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.