0 a tightly stretched wire or rope fixed high above the ground, which someone walks across as an entertainment:
He learned trapeze moves when he was just a child, and soon was able to walk the high wire.
The Aguilar brothers perform 25 feet above the arena on the high wire.
Many people confidently walk the financial high wire of life without a safety net.
The business has been on a high wire for the past few months.
This is a photograph of him as a a young man walking the high wire.
A high wire act had to be eliminated because the acrobatic rigging was too risky in an arena setting.
Accustomed to life on the high wire, he finds himself in bureaucratic hell, attending endless dull meetings.
The 90-minute film tiptoes along the high wire between sugary sweet and romantically poignant.
But, of course, high wire acts lose some of their effectiveness if the star falls on his head in the ring.
Now that all the high wire acts of two decades have failed, they could, with great advantage, go back to basics, to coin a phrase.
There are falconers, a team of high-wire motorcycling experts, and fire-eating jousters.
He is performing a high-wire act, and it is in the national interest that he does not fall off.
