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walk/tread a tightrope
idiom
If you walk/tread a tightrope, you have to deal with a difficult situation, especially one involving making a decision between two opposing plans of action: 走钢丝;（尤指因进退两难而）处境危险
Many manufacturers have to walk a tightrope between pricing their goods too high and not selling them, and pricing them low and losing money.许多制造商都面临两难的境地：或把价格定得太高结果卖不出去，或把价格定得很低结果赔钱。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Decisions and deciding
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be make or break for someone/somethingidiom
be on the horns of a dilemmaidiom
choose
clinch
conclusion
finalize
fish or cut baitidiom
flip
flip a coinidiom
get something into your headidiom
judge
resolution
see fitidiom
sleep
split decision
swing
swing the balanceidiom
take it into your head to do somethingidiom
take the plungeidiom
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