touch-and-go

"The last fight was touch and go could have gone either way. Mikaela probably did deserve to win the fight maybe, but it was a very close fight," Taylor told the BBC 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast.

"But they were 'touch and go' missions."

His loneliness “nearly killed him,” he said, acknowledging that he came close to acting on his suicidal ideation: “It was very touch and go at times.”

"It was so touch and go at every single show," he said.

“He’s been battling it since spring training … and since he’s been back, it’s been kind of touch and go, good, then not good,” Roberts said.