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View synonyms for sixty-four-dollar question

sixty-four-dollar question

or $64 ques·tion

[ siks-tee-fawr-dol-er kwes-chuhn, -fohr- ]

noun

  1. the critical or basic question or problem:

    Whether the measure will get through Congress this session or not is the sixty-four-dollar question.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sixty-four-dollar question1

From the fact that 64 dollars was the largest prize on a popular radio quiz show in the 1940s

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