English-Portuguese translations for tightrope

• corda bamba
  E não tem de se movimentar por cima de uma corda bamba, porque a sorte do funâmbulo é cair um dia. You must not walk on a tightrope because, as we all know, tightrope-walkers are doomed to fall one day.
  Senhora Presidente, sinto­me de certa forma como o grande Blondin imediatamente antes de ter iniciado a sua travessia das Cataratas do Niagara na corda bamba. Madam President, I feel rather like the great Blondin, just before he started out on his tightrope walk across the Niagara Falls.

Definition of tightrope

• A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground

Related words

• tightrope walking
• tightrope walker
• tightrope act
• tightrope artist
• tightrope artiste
• tightrope walk
• walk a tightrope