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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
- 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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