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Related topics: Performing
tightropetight‧rope /ˈtaɪt-rəʊp $ -roʊp/ noun [countable] 1 APa rope or wire high above the ground that someone walks along in a circus2 → walk a tightrope
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tightrope• In the old days he could've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope.• It's like walking a tightrope in size-15 wellies.• But he's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills, like walking a tightrope.• She and Edwards went first on a two-person, help-your-buddy tightrope walk 30 feet above the ground.• But Blondin had made the horizontal tightrope his own.• The Chancellor had a narrow tightrope to walk and he managed to please a variety of people.• For Farini the Great, the tightrope was only an adventurous way station on a roller-coaster journey through life.
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