touch-and-go

adj

1. hasty, helter-skelter, precipitate, rash; sketchy, superficial, slight, skimming the surface; desultory, disconnected, random, erratic, mercurial, inconstant, wavering, indecisive; fitful, spasmodic, jumpy, flighty, wayward, fluttery.

2. risky, dangerous, hazardous, perilous; frightening, Sl. hairy, scary, terrifying, hair-raising, making one's hair stand on end, nerve-racking; precarious, uncertain, unsure, suspenseful, cliff-hanging, like the perils of Pauline, hanging by a thread, on slippery ground; ticklish, touchy, delicate, critical.