sixty-four-dollar question

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

sixty-four-dollar question

[siks-tee-fawr-dol-er, -fohr-]
noun
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.


Origin:
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-dollar question is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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