英语词汇touch and go的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

touch and go. Either coach driving or ship pilotage gave us this term for a narrow escape or a precarious situation in which the outcome is doubtful for a time. Coach drivers used the term touch and go for a narrow escape after the wheels of two coaches touched in a near accident, a favorite scene in many costume adventures. The Sailor’s Word Book (1867) explains the term’s possible nautical derivation: “Touch and go—said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very nar- rowly to escape rocks, etc., or when, under sail, she rubs against the ground with her keel.”

词汇	touch and go
词源	touch and go. Either coach driving or ship pilotage gave us this term for a narrow escape or a precarious situation in which the outcome is doubtful for a time. Coach drivers used the term touch and go for a narrow escape after the wheels of two coaches touched in a near accident, a favorite scene in many costume adventures. The Sailor’s Word Book (1867) explains the term’s possible nautical derivation: “Touch and go—said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very nar- rowly to escape rocks, etc., or when, under sail, she rubs against the ground with her keel.”
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