touch and go

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.

   “Madam, I’m gone; no wonder, for you know, Lovers' encounters are but touch and go.”

2. sıfat Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).

   “His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.”

3. fiil To briefly encounter before moving on.

   “As the text doth rise, I will touch and go a little in euery place, untill I come unto too much.”

4. fiil To touch bottom lightly and continue without damage, as a vessel in motion.

   “Whilst they were disputing the vessel touched the ground, but soon got off again. "Ay," says the captain, "he is a good pilot that can touch and go."”

5. fiil To perform a touch-and-go landing.