$1,000,000 question

A form of million-dollar question — A question that is very important, difficult to answer, or (especially) both.

Meanings

noun$1,000,000 question (plural $1,000,000 questions)

plural $1 000 000 questions

  1. alternativeAlternative form of million-dollar question.

    Now for the $1,000,000 questions — (1) can you do the same for 5-1/4" disks if you have a 5-1/4" drive? (2) What about copy protected disks?

    2002 April 27, bighair, “cbm1581 in Linux”, in comp.emulators.cbm (Usenet)
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    This is confusing. Ok so both Fever 2003 and 2K3 are 30 bucks and they both have online play and they are both arcade-ish and not as realistic as Madden. So.... ($1,000,000 question coming)... which one is better? :)

    2002 November 21, Schizoid Man, “Difference between Madden 2002 and 2003?”, in microsoft.public.xbox (Usenet)

    The $1,000,000 question is, is there a radio-opaque trail of some kind from the eop to the area of the right eye , as Davis thought he could see ?

    2004 October 10, Paul Seaton, “McAdams runs from the tough question...again. :-(”, in alt.assassination.jfk (Usenet)
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