be walking on thin ice , auch: be skating on thin ice

An Sheng was walking on thin ice and he knew it.

"They feel as if they are walking on thin ice.

"Some of us are walking on thin ice," a Korean clothing exporter said.

Yet for all of that, by the fifth week of this season, Fisher was walking on thin ice.

"We're walking on thin ice here," he said.

"No, the trouble with lawyers is that they're paranoid," Reed grumbled, but he knew he was walking on thin ice.

Hofi was walking on thin ice as he never passed up an opportunity to ridicule the obvious absurdities of the communist government.

For example, when a child continues to misbehave a parent might say, "you're walking on thin ice", to which the child usually responds with better behavior.

Mr President, when we began this work we were aware that we were walking on thin ice.

I think McCluskey is walking on thin ice otherwise he would not have attacked Milliband in public.

He knew he had been walking on thin ice ever since he had witnessed her death at the Sumchun River.

In April 2003, Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (Remixes) was rated No. 1 on Billboards Dance/Club Play chart, gaining Ono her first number one hit.