high-stakes

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Involving large costs or rewards.2021September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, inBBC‎[1]:But it was in the early 2000s that thehigh-stakesTV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame.

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