ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tightrope-walking

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Tightrope-walking is a noun meaning present participle and gerund of tightrope-walk.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of tightrope-walk.

Example Sentences

Leading the GDC requires some delicate tightrope-walking, because the role answers to a board of commissioners from three separate interests: New York, New Jersey and Amtrak.
How are you at tightrope-walking? To raise kids who don’t bully, you need to supervise carefully and correct as needed, like when they say mean things to people’s faces or behind their backs: “Hey — how would you feel if someone said that to/about you?”
She engages in none of the compromise that is crucial to holding together Cameron’s coalition government, negotiates none of the tightrope-walking that is necessary to maintaining Britain’s association with the European Union as citizens question its value.
The programme for to-day will be the same as yesterday, shooting, dancing, tightrope-walking, athletic feats, and on the third day the prizes will be distributed, and the Schuetzen King crowned by 50 young ladies, and the whole will terminate with a dinner to the invited guests.

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