Schlappschwaenze haben auf dem Steifseil nichts zu suchen ... "
Geschwister Weisheit
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Steifseil {n} [Tanzseil] tight rope sports
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Schlappschwanz
willensschwacher, energieloser Mensch; Schwaechling
Beispiel
sie ist mit einem Schlappschwanz verheiratet
Synonyme zu Schlappschwanz:
(umgangssprachlich) Weichei; (abwertend) Jaemmerling, Schwaechling, Warmduscher, Weichling; (umgangssprachlich abwertend) Schlaffi, Waschlappen; (oesterreichisch umgangssprachlich abwertend) Tattedl; (salopp abwertend) Duennmann, Schmachtlappen; (bayrisch, oesterreichisch umgangssprachlich) Daedl, Seicherl; (veraltend) Zaertling
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Die Geschwister Weisheit sind eine Kuenstlerfamilie aus Siebleben, einem Ortsteil von Gotha in Thueringen. Sie praesentieren seit 1900 in mehreren Generationen Hochseilartistik.
Dabei vollfuehren die Mitglieder der Seiltaenzertruppe eine Fuenf-Personen-Pyramide als Drahtseilakt auf dem Hochseil. Auch eine sogenannte Steilseildarbietung ohne Netz mit und ohne Balancierstange gehoert zu ihrem Repertoire, ebenso wie die Motorradshow mit zehn Artisten und drei Motorraedern in bis zu 40 m Hoehe. Auch ein Original-Formel-E-Rennwagen in 30 m Hoehe auf doppelt gespanntem Drahtseil ist Bestandteil ihres Programms.
Gegruendet wurde die Truppe von Friedrich Wilhelm Weisheit, die zweite Generation wurde von seinem Sohn Lorenz Weisheit gefuehrt, dem Vater des jetzigen Chefs, Rudi Weisheit.
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walking a tightrope
Metaphorical use
The word funambulism or the phrase "walking a tightrope" is also used in a metaphorical setting not referring to any actual acrobatic acts. For instance, politicians are said to "walk a tightrope" when trying to balance two opposing views with little room for compromise. The term can also be used in satirical or acidic contexts. Nicholas Taleb uses the phrase in his book The Black Swan. "You get respect for doing funambulism or spectator sports". Taleb is criticising scientists who prefer popularism to vigorous research and those who walk a fixed and narrow path rather than explore a large field of empirical study.
ein Traumtaenzer sein
Englische Redewendung: to live in cloud-cuckoo-land
Someone who is said to "live in cloud cuckoo land" is a person who thinks that things that are completely impossible might happen, rather than understanding how things really are. It also hints that the person referred to is naive, unaware of realities or deranged in holding such an optimistic belief.
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walk a tightrope
walk a tightrope
To do something that requires extreme care and precision; to navigate a situation that allows very little or no error. Since there's been talk of layoffs, I've been walking a tightrope at work to prove how valuable I am.
See also: tightrope, walk
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walk a tightrope
Fig. to be in a situation where one must be very cautious. I've been walking a tightrope all day. I need to relax. Our business is about to fail. We've been walking a tightrope for three months.
See also: tightrope, walk
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
walk a tightrope
Also, be on a tightrope. Take or be on a very precarious course, as in A university press must walk a tightrope to publish scholarly books and still make money , or The general was on a tightrope as to whether he should advance or retreat. This idiom transfers the balancing act performed by tightrope or high-wire acrobats to other concerns. [First half of 1900s]
See also: tightrope, walk
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
tread/walk a ;tightrope
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be on a ;tightrope
be in a situation where you must act very carefully: I’m walking a tightrope at the moment; one more mistake and I might lose my job.
A tightrope is a rope high up in the air that an acrobat walks along at a circus.
See also: tightrope, tread, walk
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