noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
walk
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But he's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills, like walking a tightrope .
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All organizations especially those that are growing, walk a tightrope between stability and change, tradition and revision.
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It's like walking a tightrope in size-15 wellies.
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Neurotics walk a tightrope from one catastrophe to the next.
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The Profitboss walks a tightrope between research and risk, between research and opportunity.
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And went back up and walked the tightrope to the west bank 31.
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I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm.
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The rare person who on the rare occasion wants to be wholly neutral has to walk a tightrope .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Blondin had made the horizontal tightrope his own.
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But he's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills, like walking a tightrope .
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For Farini the Great, the tightrope was only an adventurous way station on a roller-coaster journey through life.
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In the old days he could've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope .
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It's like walking a tightrope in size-15 wellies.
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She and Edwards went first on a two-person, help-your-buddy tightrope walk 30 feet above the ground.
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The Chancellor had a narrow tightrope to walk and he managed to please a variety of people.