borderline vs touch and go

borderline

verb
  • To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to. 

adj
  • Showing bad taste. 

  • Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous. 

  • Exhibiting borderline personality disorder. 

adv
  • Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent. 

noun
  • A boundary or accepted division; a border. 

  • An individual who has borderline personality disorder. 

touch and go

verb
  • To touch bottom lightly and without damage, as a vessel in motion. 

  • To perform a touch-and-go landing. 

adj
  • Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water). 

How often have the words borderline and touch and go occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )