| 单词 | sixty-four dollar question |
| 释义 | > as lemmassixty-four dollar question sixty-four dollar question n. (also $64 question, sixty-four thousand dollar question, and variants) originally the question posed at the climax of a U.S. radio quiz for a prize of sixty-four dollars; transferred a difficult or crucial question. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > act or instance of > difficult or crucial opposal?a1439 problem1543 good questiona1576 searcher1923 sixty-four dollar question1942 1942 J. R. Tunis All American vii. 240 Here's the sixty~four dollar question. Will the team go to Miami? 1942 Time 18 May 22/3 The Jap..could still sweat over the $64 question. 1955 M. Gilbert Sky High xii. 176 ‘What have these receivers got to do with us?’..‘That's the sixty~four dollar question.’ 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 150 All the time he had the sixty-four dollar answer but did not know it. 1957 Observer 21 July 1/3 Mr. Macmillan said..there was only one answer to the 64,000-dollar question—to increase production. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 930/1 I come now to what you probably feel is the sixty-four-dollar question. How is all this to be paid for? 1963 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. 37/1 Mr. Baker..left the air, to return in 1942 as master of ceremonies on ‘Take it or Leave it’... He posed ‘the $64 question’, a term that became part of everyday language. 1967 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Dec. 27/1 On June 1, 1955, ‘The $64,000 Question’ was born and commercial television was never the same again. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 127 143/2 Like his predecessor on this rostrum he left it to Mr. Tyrrell Burgess, our lecturer tonight, to tackle the sixty-four dollar question—What now? 1981 B. Healey Last Ferry from Lido vi. 101 It still leaves the sixty-four thousand dollar question. Where do we go from here? < as lemmas |
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