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Tightrope meaning
A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground. | A difficult or desperate situation.
Synonyms of Tightrope
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As such she spends most of the show treading a tightrope between cops and crims, and living in constant fear of Morris’ well-deserved reputation should she be exposed.
Beale’s tightrope walk isn’t a short one.
Beyond walking the diplomatic tightrope between major powers, ASEAN member states, of course, have their own pressing issues ahead in 2024.
But I’m going to tell you what, we’re walking a tightrope right now, at how much longer this country is going to make it, as we all know it.
Even in the recovery phase, delicately walks a perilous tightrope and arrives on the other side as the masterpiece of Perry’s career.
In 1861, as Herr Professor Cristophe, he performed on the tightrope at the Theatre Royal, in Malop Street.
It’s like walking on a tightrope, where you aim for that sweet spot between risk and reward.
It was a political tightrope he may never have managed if he’d grown up in the heart of Plains rather than Archery.
Loubscher stressed that the Lions should look inward instead of focusing too much on the opposition or the do-or-bust tightrope of knockout rugby.
Meanwhile, a report this week may show a key gauge of US inflation remains stubbornly high, reminding investors of the tightrope the central bank must walk to maintain both price and financial stability.
Some admitted they were talking a tightrope of survival.
The confronting, hilarious and often touching reunion between Isaac and Max creates a wonderfully unrestrained tightrope walk between brother/sister sledging and brother/ brother male-bonding.
The Fed is walking a tightrope of slowing inflation and trying to prevent further damage to our economy.
The meeting took place amid Russia’s escalating confrontation with the Western powers over the conflict and India’s diplomatic tightrope walk on the issue.
This balance has stretched him on a tightrope until now, but he can’t take a single false step.
Tightrope walkers had to retain their balance while walking along a highly tensioned wire between two points on the framework of the circus tent.
Today, Collins’ job involves reforming appropriations so that some spending bills come to the floor far in advance in the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government, a difficult tightrope to walk but a popular demand in both chambers.
You can work in an assembly line, you can walk across two skyscrapers on a tightrope.
But Clark is also always unafraid to speak her mind to officials, setting up a 40-minute tightrope walk where one step in the wrong direction could prove costly.
Experts said that it is a tightrope walk for the RBI and it is, therefore, possible that it will hold on to the current repo rate for now, until these pressures ease.