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sixty-four dollar question; sixty-four thousand dollar question; sixty-four million dollar question
noun
a question that gets to the heart of the matter US, 1942
The US radio quiz show Take It or Leave It offered a highest prize of $64, giving rise to the catch-phrase “sixty-four dollar question”. The phrase gained currency and three decimal places in televised quiz shows on both sides of the Atlantic.- Now for the sixty-four-dollar question, Mike. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 58, 1950
- Inevitably, there is one question which every customer puts to a prostitute–what might be called the sixty-four-dollar question. — Polly Adler, A House is Not a Home, p. 127, 1953
- The prison camp was to be visited again by some of those naval intelligence officers who came out to ply us with questions, with their $64 questions. — Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, Baa Baa Black Sheep, p. 304, 1958
- What is love? That is the 64-billion-dollar question, and as of now the jackpot if still unclaimed. — Ann Landers, Ann Landers Talks to Teen-Agers About Sex, p. 95, 1963
- Why? Now here we have a $64,000,000 question. — Dick Clark, To Goof or Not to Goof, p. 25, 1963
- Because now I’m gonna ask you some sixty-four-thousand-dollar questions and I want the truth[.] — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 532, 1992
- But now what? What does Ray do now? That is the sixty-four thousand dollar question. — Copland, 1997
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