The word 'tightrope' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word when you want to describe a situation where a person must carefully and skillfully navigate a difficult issue or decision. For example, "The decision to cut costs without sacrificing quality was like walking a tightrope."
Mr Lobo will need to walk a tightrope between making concessions to the "resistance"—which says it will return to agitating for a new constitution and tending to his socially conservative base.
Prior to its broadcast, publicity for the second series of Broadchurch walked a tricky tightrope between not saying anything at all and saying way too much.
The gap is as wide as it ever was and David Cameron is still wobbling on a tightrope strung across the chasm, but now without the benefit of any safety net.
Still, the conventional wisdom among Republican political operatives in Washington right now is that the tightrope Paul is walking probably won't lead to the White House.
Labor will be walking a tightrope on the issue, as it has done since being elected.
You're on a tightrope every day.
More misery for the chancellor Sighs of relief Those big boys next door Walking on a tightrope Tyranny of the tiny?
If one is not called, it threatens to withdraw support from the government led by Mr Mas's Convergence and Union (CiU), making it impossible to pass a budget for 2015.Mr Mas is on a tightrope.
BusinessWeek said Mr Brown had "scared California straight".In this section You're going to get wet Redemption song Playing God Raising the bar Machiavelli v Torquemada Let them drive Chris Christie's tightrope ReprintsThere is something to that.
Euro members are walking on a wobbly tightrope without a safety net.
Fifteen states labelled a child "proficient" when the NCES would have called her skills "basic"; 35 bestowed that honour on children performing at "below basic" level.In this section You're going to get wet Redemption song Playing God Raising the bar Let them drive Machiavelli v Torquemada Chris Christie's tightrope ReprintsSmall wonder parents are crying out for grades that mean something.
