tightrope-walking

tightrope-walking (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tightrope walking.
   • 1870 June 14, “Schuetzen Fest. Annual Festival of the New-York Schuetzen Corps.”, in New-York Tribune, volume XXX, number 9,106, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:

     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.

   • 2012 June 1, Autumn Brewington, “What if America had a queen?”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 November 2012:

     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.

   • 2014 July 7, Carolyn Hax, “Carolyn Hax: How can I raise a child who doesn’t bully and isn’t bullied?”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 July 2014:

     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?”

   • 2024 May 31, Alexis Petridis, “‘Rapper’s Delight planted a seed for the rest of my life’: Questlove on hoarding, capturing hip-hop history and the Kendrick-Drake beef”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2024:

     One is rumoured to be a live-action remake of Disney classic The Aristocats, but the only one he’s allowed to discuss is a nearly completed documentary about Sly Stone, “a 20,000-piece puzzle that took a lot of meticulous tightrope-walking to put together”, that delves not just into his music, but his capacity for self-sabotage.

   • 2025 January 19, Colleen Wilson, “New CEO joins Gateway project to build Hudson River rail tunnel”, in Herald News, Woodland Park, N.J.: Gannett Media Corp, →OCLC, page 1L, column 2:

     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.

tightrope-walking

1. present participle and gerund of tightrope-walk