tightrope walk
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tightrope walk
noun tightrope walks · tightrope-walk
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An instance of walking on a tightrope.
Stunts like tightrope walks and barrel plunges were later banned at the falls, with fines of up to $10,000.
Similar: rope dance
- A perilous course between alternatives. Mr. Donofrio's strategy is a tightrope walk. He is trying to preserve as much of the traditional mainframe business as possible, while remaking the big machines, replacing their large, power-hungry processors with more efficient computer-on-a-chip microprocessors, which drive work stations and perso
verb tightrope walks · tightrope walking · tightrope walked · tightrope-walk
- Alternative form of tightrope-walk John Glass, 23 years old, a waiter, of 716 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, put the commando training he learned as a soldier to use yesterday, according to the police of the Bergen Street Station, who said that he scaled a one-story brick building, tightrope walked along a cornice, forced down a window
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title = {tightrope walk},
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