question

Related to question: rhetorical question, Questionable Content
See:
  • $64 question
  • a civil question deserves a civil answer
  • a leading question
  • a question mark
  • a question mark hangs over somebody/something
  • a question of time
  • a vexed question
  • an open question
  • ask a silly question and you get a silly answer
  • ask a silly/stupid question (and you'll get a silly/stupid answer)
  • ask a stupid question and you'll get a stupid answer
  • ask me no questions, (and) I'll tell you no lies
  • ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies
  • Ask no questions and hear no lies
  • at great length
  • be a moot point
  • be a moot point/question
  • be a moot question
  • be a question of time
  • be just a matter of time
  • be just a question of time
  • be no question of (doing) (something)
  • be no question that (something will happen/is the case)
  • be only a matter of time
  • be only a question of time
  • be out of the question
  • beg the question
  • beg the question, to
  • beside the point
  • beside the question
  • beyond question
  • beyond/without question
  • bombard (one) with questions
  • bombard with questions
  • bring (someone or something) into question
  • bring into question
  • bring/call/throw something into question
  • burning question
  • burning question, the
  • call (someone or something) into question
  • call in question
  • call in question, to
  • call into question
  • come into question
  • drill (someone) (with questions)
  • field a question
  • field questions
  • fire insults at (one)
  • fire questions at (one)
  • fire questions, insults, etc. at somebody
  • good question
  • good question!
  • in question
  • it's a question of (something)
  • it's a question of something
  • it's only, just, etc. a matter/a question of time
  • leading question
  • loaded question
  • moot question
  • next question
  • no questions asked
  • only a question of time
  • open question
  • open question, an
  • open to question
  • out of the question
  • pop the question
  • pop the question, to
  • pose a question
  • question (one) about (something)
  • question about
  • question mark
  • question mark over
  • question of
  • rhetorical question
  • shoot first, ask questions later
  • sixty-four-dollar question
  • sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, the
  • the 64,000 dollar question
  • the Final Solution
  • the million-dollar question
  • the sixty-four thousand dollar question
  • the sixty-four-dollar question
  • the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
  • the W5 questions
  • there are two sides to every question
  • there is no such thing as a stupid question
  • There’s no such thing as a stupid question
  • there's no question of (something)
  • there's some question of (something)
  • there's some/no question of something/of doing something
  • throw (something) into question
  • to (do something) or not to (do something)(, that is the question)
  • vexed question
  • without question
References in classic literature
As he listened to his brother's argument with the professor, he noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him the chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about.
Anna Karenina
Confining yourself rigidly to Fact, the question of Fact you state to yourself is: Does Mr.
And it is satisfactory to me, as your father, my dear Louisa, to know that you do not come to the consideration of that question with the previous habits of mind, and habits of life, that belong to many young women.'
Hard Times
On the fifth question, "At what point in the heavens ought the cannon to be aimed?"
As to the sixth question, "What place will the moon occupy in the heavens at the moment of the projectile's departure?"
From The Earth To The Moon
Jaggers shook his head - not in negativing the question, but in altogether negativing the notion that he could anyhow be got to answer it - and the two horrible casts of the twitched faces looked, when my eyes strayed up to them, as if they had come to a crisis in their suspended attention, and were going to sneeze.
Unless he wants to get rid of the friend - and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him."
Great Expectations
My question was certainly a strange one, after what he had just said to me.
"You have come here to ask questions. Spare yourself, and spare me.
Law and the Lady
As public interest was in question, and transatlantic communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted.
Upon my arrival in New York several persons did me the honour of consulting me on the phenomenon in question. I had published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes, entitled Mysteries of the Great Submarine Grounds.
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
In the case of a weather-cock, the direction of the wind is relevant, but not its strength; in the case of the boy, the meaning of the words of your question is relevant, but not the loudness of your voice, or whether you are his father or his schoolmaster If, however, you were a boy of his own age, that would be relevant, and the appropriate response would be different.
The Analysis of Mind
Crum opened his eyes--considered--and put another question as delicately as he could.
Man And Wife
Brott said, "of that portion of her life concerning which I have asked no questions, but which somehow, whenever I think of it, fills me with a certain amount of uneasiness.
The Yellow Crayon
Why in the world, to worry us so--and take our thoughts off, too, don't you know?-- did you desert us at the very door?" I couldn't meet such questions nor, as they asked them, their false little lovely eyes; yet it was all so exactly what I should have to meet that, as the prospect grew sharp to me, I at last let myself go.
Turn Of The Screw