at stake

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(idiomatic) At issue, at risk.
What is at stake in these next 20 minutes is the championship.

Doesn't he realize that all of our lives are at stake here too?
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene 3,
  I see my reputation is at stake
  
  My fame is shrewdly gored.
- 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 4, p. 14,
  How, Lucia, wou’dst thou have me sink away
  
  In pleasing Dreams, and lose my self in Love,
  
  When ev’ry moment Cato’s Life’s at Stake?
- 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 5,
  […] as I have a great deal more at stake on this point than anybody else can have, I think it rather unnecessary in you to be advising me.

Translations

at issue, at risk

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: en joc (ca)
Dutch: op het spel
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: pelissä
French: en jeu (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: auf dem Spiel
Irish: i ngeall
Italian: in ballo, in gioco, a rischio, in palio, posta in gioco f
Khmer: please add this translation if you can

Mandarin:
Simplified: ^{(please verify)} 危险的 (zh)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: em jogo
Russian: на кону́ (na konú), на ка́рте (na kárte)
Scottish Gaelic: an geall
Spanish: en juego
Swedish: på spel
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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