walk a tightrope

English

walk a tightrope (third-person singular simple present walks a tightrope, present participle walking a tightrope, simple past and past participle walked a tightrope)

(figuratively) To undertake a precarious course of action.
The company constantly walked a tightrope between operating on little money and filling orders quickly.
- 2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  The older me, the one who prefers wine to fizz, wishes Leerhsen had more to say about things like: a) the elite and vernacular food worlds pre- and post-Bourdain; b) how Bourdain walked a moral tightrope across the conventions of travel writing and reporting, no mean feat for a wealthy white man in skinny jeans; […] .

to undertake a precarious course

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: խուսավարել (xusavarel), խուսանավել (hy) (xusanavel)
Catalan: fer equilibris, anar per la corda fluixa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 走鋼絲 / 走钢丝 (zh) (zǒugāngsī)
Czech: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: taiteilla (fi), tasapainoilla (fi)
French: être sur le fil, être sur le fil du rasoir (fr)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Italian: camminare sul filo del rasoio
Japanese: 綱渡をする (tsunawatari wo suru)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Polish: balansować na krawędzi, stąpać po kruchym lodzie (pl)
Portuguese: andar na corda bamba
Russian: ходи́ть по ле́звию ножа́ (xodítʹ po lézviju nožá) (walk on a knife blade)
Spanish: andar en la cuerda floja
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can