the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question

(informal) also the million-dollar question (informal)

an important or difficult question which people do not know the answer to So will she marry him or not? - that's the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question.

See beg the question, call into question, pop the question

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
ThÉRÈSe	te-REZ	French
Dana
Hubbard	['hʌbəd]
August	OW-guwst (German, Polish), AW-gəst (English)	German, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Catalan, English
Ahab	AY-hab (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin
Circe	SUR-see (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized)