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a straight line that demands you stop believing in down.
means A tightly stretched rope or wire, high above the ground, that an acrobat walks across; figuratively, any precarious situation requiring careful balance between competing dangers.
from A plain compound of "tight" and "rope," both solidly Old English in ancestry — "tight" from a Germanic root meaning dense or close-packed (a cousin of words like "thick"), and "rope" an old word for a stout cord. The literal sense of a taut rope for walking is the older one; the figurative "walking a tightrope" — meaning to navigate something dangerously delicate — followed naturally from the circus image, where one slip means a fall.
- world record
- Nik Wallenda crossed the Grand Canyon area, no net
- physics
- long balance poles lower your center of mass
- the danger
- falls injure more than the rope ever does
- term
- funambulism comes from Latin for rope-walking
- feet first
- performers grip with toes, not balance on soles
abdul wahab pyramid walk — egyptian tightrope walker crossed between pyramid peaks in cairo, 2009