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dollar 1. nickname Route 100 in eastern Pennsylvania US, 1977 2. noun 1 five shillings. Dating from those happy days when the rate of exchange was US$4 to £1 UK, 1848. 2 a variety of MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy UK, 1996. 3 money UK, 2000
idiomdollarthe 64,000 dollar question(also the million dollar question)used in order to say that a question is very important but difficult to answer:The 64,000 dollar question is whether Barry's willing to come back and play for his former team."How long will it take you to sail around the world?" "Well that's the million dollar question, isn't it?"NoteThis idiom comes from the name of a game show on television in the US in the 1950s called The $64,000 Question in which the amount of money offered for the final question was $64,000. you can bet your bottom dollarcertainly/definitelyspoken said when you are sure that you know what someone will do or what will happen:You can bet your bottom dollar it'll end up with someone getting hurt."Hilary could be sick." "Could be, but you can bet your bottom dollar she isn't."
See:- $64 question
- (as) gay as a three-dollar bill
- (as) phony as a three-dollar bill
- (as) queer as a three-dollar bill
- (as) sound as a dollar
- (one's) bottom dollar
- a day late and a dollar short
- adobe dollar
- almighty dollar, the
- another day, another dollar
- as phony as a three-dollar bill
- as queer as a three-dollar bill
- be (as) sound as a dollar
- be dollars to doughnuts that
- be dollars to doughnuts that (something happens)
- bet bottom dollar
- bet dollars to doughnuts
- bet one’s bottom dollar
- bet one's bottom dollar, one can
- bet someone dollars to doughnuts
- bet you dollars to doughnuts
- bet your bottom dollar
- bet your bottom dollar/your life
- day late and a dollar short
- dollar for dollar
- dollar signs in (one's) eyes
- dollars to doughnuts
- dollars to doughnuts, it's
- dollars-and-cents
- feel a million dollars
- feel like a million dollars
- he wears a $10 hat on a five-cent head
- He wears a ten-dollar hat on a five-cent head
- hotter than a two-dollar pistol
- like a million dollars
- look a million dollars
- look like a million dollars
- look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
- one’s bottom dollar
- pay top dollar
- pay, earn, charge, etc. top dollar
- phonier than a three-dollar bill
- phony as a three-dollar bill
- queer as a three-dollar bill
- queerer than a three-dollar bill
- sixty-four-dollar question
- sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, the
- sound as a dollar
- the 64,000 dollar question
- the almighty dollar
- the gray dollar
- the million-dollar question
- the pink dollar
- the sixty-four thousand dollar question
- the sixty-four-dollar question
- the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
- top dollar
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