tightrope
绳索,走钢丝,走绳索,走绳
Definitions
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- : a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
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tight·roped, tight·rop·ing.
- : to walk, move, or proceed on or as on a tightrope: He tightroped through enemy territory.
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tight·roped, tight·rop·ing.
- : to make on or as on a tightrope.
Examples
When you add to that that it’s someone of the stature of Rudy Giuliani that you have to get on his own, in the middle of a pandemic, and make sure he doesn’t suspect anything, it’s just an absolute tightrope.
More recently, the companies have walked a tightrope, acknowledging that climate change is real while still insisting that they need to service a robust market for their products that will exist for decades.
With that in mind, check out these tightrope walkers high above the demonstrations in Medellin and Bogota’s Philharmonic Orchestra striking up Fanfare for the Common Man to appeal for calm.
Directing Bollywood drama The Last Color, now on Amazon Prime, Khanna delivers a story about the unique friendship between a 9-year-old tightrope walker and a widow, confronting taboos around caste, widowhood and gender roles.
It’s a tightrope of not feeling but staying busy but not being vulnerable, which complicates things with my partner because connecting with my partner requires vulnerability and emotion.
The heir to a tightrope walking family has tried some crazy stunts in his day.
The self-styled ‘Art Criminal’ dazzled onlookers and made history when he tightrope walked between the WTC towers 40 years ago.
All weekend reporters in eastern Ukraine were walking a bizarre tightrope, of prurience, politesse, and ghoulishness.
The clan had a tightrope act that went horribly wrong in 1962.
To this day, the family still enthusiastically explores walking.