crisis
hair trigger
Achilles heel
boned
swamp
hang by a thread
escape
alarmed
nonportability
hot water
hitch
preventative
hindrance
preventive
interference
destabilise
desperate
destabilize
hinderance
incumbrance
encumbrance
dire
have the wolf by the ear
fluctuate
chary
cagey
cagy
insecurity
roll of the dice
precarious
fuckness
problematics
distress
deadpan
jeopardy
precipice
barrier
hazard
peril
sharp end
endangerment
roadblock
risk
gnarly
catch a cold
treacherous
obstacle-ridden
unreliable
instability
facilitative
razor's edge
sangfroid
workaround
in the lurch
quicksand
tinderbox
shadow
forsakenly
let
sink
duress
touch-and-go
chopping block
unstableness
soup
mire
menace
parlous
plight
precariously
take on water
unfearable
on the hook
perilous
dicey
lability
foreset
instable
skiddly
sticky wicket
resistant
between wind and water
screwed
hard-set
unsafety
have a tiger by the tail
candle in the wind
trouble
have the tiger by the tail
pickle
undisruptable
time bomb
booby trap
ticking bomb

English words for 'an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty'

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