sixty-four-dollar question
- sixty-four-dollar question
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: a crucial question expressing the basic issue on a problematical subject
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/siks"tee fawr'dol"euhr, -fohr'-/
the critical or basic question or problem: Whether the measure will get through Congress this session or not is the sixty-four-dollar question.
Also, $64 question.
[from the fact that 64 dollars was the largest prize on a popular radio quiz show in the 1940s]
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sixty-four-(thousand-)dollar question noun
1. (from a US quiz game), the final and most difficult question one has to answer, from the sixty-four-(thousand-)dollar top prize money awarded
2. Hence, a hard question to answer, the supreme or crucial question
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sixty-four-dollar question or $64 question,
U.S. the key question; the final and most important question: »
The answer to the $64 question has thus far been given by the politicians, with woefully inadequate consideration of the scientist's point of view (Science News Letter).
╂[< the name of a radio quiz program of the 1940's, which offered a prize of $64]
Useful english dictionary.
2012.
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