answer on a postcard

answer on a postcard

1. A brief, concise answer, reply, or opinion, especially one meant as a quick response to a general question. I'd like to get people's opinions on where to go for a summer vacation. Answers on a postcard, please!
2. An answer that is considered obvious or self-evident. We'd like to get into more complex reasons for inequality, so please avoid just giving answers on a postcard.
See also: answer, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pat answer
  • answer (one) back
  • answer back
  • a dusty reply
  • no comment
  • reply to
  • reply to (someone or something)
  • tot
  • quot homines tot sententiae
  • potboiler
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Write your answer on a postcard or the back of a sealed envelope, add your name and address and daytime phone number and send it to PetrolScooter Competition, Coventry Telegraph, Corporation Street, Coventry, CV1 1FP to arrive by Noon on Wednesday.
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a) Bristol b) Macclesfield c) Glasgow Send your answer on a postcard or sealed down envelope to Wembley Competition, Liverpool Echo Sports Desk, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L69 3EB.
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Send your answer on a postcard to Sunday Mercury Simpsons Competition, Weaman Street, Birmingham B4 6AT, or e-mail us at mercury_features@mrn.co.uk.
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Send your answer on a postcard along with your name, age, address and daytime telephone number on a postcard, to: Worthington Cup Final Competition, People Sport, PO BOX 7294, London E14 5DG.
Win Super VIP tickets for the Worthington Cup Final
Answer on a postcard to reach us by 5pm on Friday, April 8, 2005 to:
Steppin'Out: Daniel O'Donnell COMPETITION
Send your answer on a postcard or sealed down envelope to: Super League competition, Sports desk, Liverpool ECHO, PO Box 48, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L69 3EB.
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Write the answer on a postcard, add your name and address and daytime phone number and send it to: PO Box 6870, London E14 5BT.
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Put your answer on a postcard then answer this simple question: Captain Hook is a character from which famous children's story?
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Write your answer on a postcard, add your name, address and daytime telephone number and send it to: Hope & Glory, PO Box 188, Woodford Green, Essex 1G8 7RW.
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Put the answer on a postcard, add your name and address and daytime telephone number and send it to: FA Cup Competition, The People Sports Desk, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP.
WIN 10 great sets of FA Cup club histories on video