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the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question

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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

See also: question