{"id":214,"date":"2014-04-14T12:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2014-04-14T12:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T10:13:55","slug":"idiom-39-touch-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-39-touch-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 39 &#8211; Touch and go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the worst part of the recent financial crisis, our company lost a lot of business and really suffered. We are back to normal now, but it was <em>touch and go (Auf der Kippe)<\/em> for a while there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" id=\"image_2036740\" title=\"Replicas of the Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta sail by OV-105 on KSC LC Pad 39B\" alt=\"Replicas of Christopher Columbus' sailing ships Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta sail by Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, on Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B awaiting liftoff on its maiden voyage, STS-49. This view is a ...\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/estock\/nasas1\/5\/74\/94\/everystockphoto-nasa-space-57494-l.jpg\" width=\"147\" height=\"111\" \/>This phrase comes from the shipping industry. In the days when most transport was done by sailing ships, transferring goods or passengers from one ship to another was a difficult and dangerous undertaking. The two vessels would have to sail so close to each other that they actually touched, and then &#8222;go&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the worst part of the recent financial crisis, our company lost a lot of business and really suffered. We are back to normal now, but it was touch and go (Auf der Kippe) for a while there. This phrase comes from the shipping industry. In the days when most transport was done by sailing [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}