January 2011

ENGLISH IDIOM OF THE MONTH:
„The sixty-four thousand dollar question“

 

MEANING

An American idiom – people use this idiom when the question they want to ask is a very important question.

TRANSLATION

Die alles entscheidende Frage
(wörtlich: „die $ 64'000 Frage“)

ORIGIN

This idiom originates from the U.S.A. from a popular television game show from 1955-1958.