sixty-four-dollar question

the sixty-four-dollar question

A question that is very important and difficult or complex to answer. Taken from the title of the 1940s radio program Take It or Leave It, in which the big prize was 64 silver dollars. The sixty-four-dollar question now is whether he should choose his former opponent as a running mate. A: "Do you want to get Italian or Chinese tonight?" B: "Well, that's the sixty-four-dollar question, isn't it?"

sixty-four-dollar question

Fig. the most important question; the question that everyone wants to know the answer to. Who will win? Now, that is the sixty-four-dollar question. Now for the sixty-four-dollar question. What's the stock market going to do this year?

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释义	sixty-four-dollar question the sixty-four-dollar question A question that is very important and difficult or complex to answer. Taken from the title of the 1940s radio program Take It or Leave It, in which the big prize was 64 silver dollars. The sixty-four-dollar question now is whether he should choose his former opponent as a running mate. A: "Do you want to get Italian or Chinese tonight?" B: "Well, that's the sixty-four-dollar question, isn't it?" See also: question Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. sixty-four-dollar question Fig. the most important question; the question that everyone wants to know the answer to. Who will win? Now, that is the sixty-four-dollar question. Now for the sixty-four-dollar question. What's the stock market going to do this year? See also: question McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: $64 question 64 the sixty-four-dollar question the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, the the 64,000 dollar question the sixty-four thousand dollar question go down the rabbit hole rabbit hole snowball into (something) References in periodicals archive The sixty-four-dollar question is, can Scotland afford to meet that challenge? Why we must all think about cost of caring for Scotland's ageing population -- Helen Martin Here's the sixty-four-dollar question: Why didn't the DENR require these businesses to install wastewater-treatment facilities before they were allowed to operate? Let everybody help clean up Manila Bay That is the sixty-four-dollar question,' he said in a phone interview on Tuesday. Alleged Cebu narcopols Loot, Rama cry: 'Investigate us, too' That is a "sixty-four-dollar question $64 question "! NCP opposed to peaceful resolution for the Darfur Crisis "That's the sixty-four-dollar question," says Ward, who suggests the answer hinges on your definition of art. Having Their Say Parnell Thomas, "broke in and said he would skip to `the sixty-four-dollar question.' To that one I responded, `I could answer the question, Mr. Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist
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