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high wire

noun

  1. a tightrope stretched very high above the ground.


high wire

noun

  1. a tightrope stretched high in the air for balancing acts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of high wire1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Of course, one problem with walking a high wire is that your opponent can try to knock you off.

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“It was so eloquent. Like watching a trapeze artist on a high wire, poised gracefully in midair.”

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Of all the State of the Union addresses a president could deliver, it’s the one that comes in an election year that counts as the ultimate high wire act.

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AP Film Writer Jake Coyle called it a “high wire act of a biopic” in his review, favoring the experimental black-and-white beginning over the later years, which focuses more on the increasingly complex family dynamics.

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A new high wire act is running downtown, where Teatro ZinZanni has settled into its current home at Lotte Hotel’s Sanctuary Ballroom.

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