Similar words: tight, tights, uptight, tightly, tighten, trope, sit tight, airtight. Meaning: n. tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
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31 Neurotics walk a tightrope from one catastrophe to the next.
32 For Farini the Great, the tightrope was only an adventurous way station on a roller-coaster journey through life.
33 She and Edwards went first on a two-person, help-your-buddy tightrope walk 30 feet above the ground.
34 She felt like a tightrope walker suffering an attack of vertigo, terrified she was going to topple.
35 I teetered across, on the edge of tipping up, a tightrope walk between panic and despair.
36 Life here, I could see,[http://sentencedict.com/tightrope.html] was going to be on an even more perilous tightrope than it was in Britain.
37 The Chancellor had a narrow tightrope to walk and he managed to please a variety of people.
38 YIN MINGSHAN is a Chinese tightrope walker.
39 At a circus, there is usually a tightrope walker.
40 Not now .'So begins the fall tightrope walk.
41 The story of several encounters. A tightrope of feelings.
42 She dared to walk the tightrope without a net.
43 He kept his balance on the tightrope.
44 They have magic shows , flying trapeze arts, tightrope walking and even the clowns.
45 And when asked if she likes tightrope walking, she says ,"yes, because I started from a very young age."
46 The tightrope walker kept her balance by holding up an umbrella.
47 The Darwaz ( Uygur tightrope walking at high altitude ) is now widely known at home and abroad.
48 Tightrope walking at the age of 3-not something most parents would encourage, especially 9 metres above a tiger enclosure.
49 TYPICAL USE : The crowd gaped at the daring tricks performed by the tightrope walker.
50 They watch with horror as the tightrope walker struggled to remain his balance.
51 The children were breathless as they watched the tightrope act.
52 Wang is a tightrope walker : One lapse in concentration and everything can be lost.
53 Designing a post - PC device is something of a tightrope act.
54 An Armenian tightrope walker steadies himself with pole as he prepared to perform a trick.
55 The watchers held their breath as the acrobat crossed the tightrope.
56 All this tightrope walking is unnerving the staff at the IMF, which warned last week that "though there has been progress on banking system repair, the pace is too slow."
57 Adili Wuxor lies on a tightrope during the last day of his two-month tightrope walking performance on top of China's National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing.
58 Life is like tightrope walking. If one does not earnestly look forwards but keeps looking back, he is sure to fall off.
59 For the past few days Corinne has been living on an emotional tightrope.
60 It is distinct from tightrope walking in that the line is not held rigidly taut—it is instead dynamic, stretching and bouncing like a large rubber band.
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