answer

See:
  • a civil question deserves a civil answer
  • a dusty answer
  • a soft answer turneth away wrath
  • a soft answer turns away wrath
  • answer (one) back
  • answer (one's) purpose
  • answer back
  • answer back to (one)
  • answer for
  • answer nature's call
  • answer on a postcard
  • answer purpose
  • answer the bell
  • answer the call
  • answer the call of nature
  • answer the door
  • answer to
  • answer to the description (of)
  • answer to the description of
  • answer to the name
  • answer to the name (of)
  • 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
  • have a lot to answer for
  • have all the answers
  • have/know all the answers
  • know all the answers
  • not take no for an answer
  • pat answer
  • soft answer turneth away wrath
  • stock answer
  • take no for an answer
  • take no for an answer, not
  • talk back
  • the answer to somebody's prayers
  • the answer's a lemon
  • the/an answer to (one's) prayer(s)
  • won't take no for an answer
References in classic literature
I presume then that you are going to make one of the interdicted answers?
Republic
"Lady Ruth," he said, "will you favor me with an answer to my message?"
"Cigars and cigarettes, and jolly good ones, too," Aynesworth answered, opening a flat tin box, and smelling the contents appreciatively.
The Malefactor
SOCRATES: And so of the virtues, however many and different they may be, they have all a common nature which makes them virtues; and on this he who would answer the question, 'What is virtue?' would do well to have his eye fixed: Do you understand?
And if you answered 'roundness,' he would reply to you, in my way of speaking, by asking whether you would say that roundness is 'figure' or 'a figure;' and you would answer 'a figure.'
Meno
``Ay, right,'' answered Front-de-B uf; ``and canst thou tell me, holy father, the number of those banditti?''
``Gallant sir,'' answered the Jester, ``nomen illis legio, their name is legion.''
Ivanhoe
"For a lawyer, you are the hardest man to keep to a point I ever saw," Ernest began his answer to the tirade.
"That you should not answer is intolerable," Ernest replied gravely.
The Iron Heel
"I am anxious to hear your news," he answered. "I am convinced that you have something important to say to me."
"Supposing," she answered, still looking at him steadily, "supposing I were to say that I had no object in coming here at all - that it was merely a whim?
The Yellow Crayon
"It is the king's word, woman," I answered sternly; but my heart was split in two within me.
Nada The Lily
"So much the better for you!" answered the Coal Man.
Adventures Of Pinocchio
"Here, if you please, madam," the clerk answered. "I must go back to my desk.
The Illustrious Prince
"I suppose the papers have been talking a lot of rot," he answered bluntly.
A Millionaire of Yesterday