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Are we away? interrog. “Shall we go?”; “Let's go.” (Really a command to depart expressed as a question.)Well, it's late. Are we away?The car's warmed up. Are we away? or what? phr. “or what else can it be?” (Part of a special formula that asks if something is a good example or specimen of something. The expected answer is yes. The question “Is this an X or what?” means “If this isn't a really great X, what is it then?”)Look at what I am wearing! Is that a great jacket or what?That's my son. Is he a superman or what? sixty-four-dollar question n. the most important question; the question that everyone wants to know the answer to. (Always with the.)When? Now, that is the sixty-four-dollar question.Now for the sixty-four-dollar question. What's the stock market going to do this year?
idiomquestion► the 64, 000 dollar questionsth begs the questionused about a statement, discussion, or situation that makes you want to ask more important questions, ideas etc because they have not been mentioned or dealt with:The whole affair begs the question why reporters were allowed into the junior high school in the first place.Claiming that a person's mind could be uploaded into a computer certainly begs the question, what is the difference between human and artificial intelligence?good question!not knowspoken said when you do not know the answer to someone's question:"When's the next meeting?" "Oh yeah, good question - does anyone know?""So, why do they keep looking at houses if they can't afford to move?" "Good question!"be out of the questionused in order to say that something will not be possible or is not allowed:"How about Monday - are you free then?" "No, Monday's out of the question."A house was out of the question in those days, we usually lived in rented rooms.Could we have access to the students' records, or would that be out of the question?pop the questionto ask someone to marry you:Sharon and Dave had only known each other for three months, and she was stunned when he popped the question at her birthday party.No, he didn't go down on one knee to pop the question, but he had bought a ring, and it was all very romantic.a thorny question/problem(also a thorny issue, subject, topic etc)a complicated problem that is difficult to deal with because people disagree and have strong feelings about it:The court is considering the thorny question of an adopted child's right to know its natural parents.Several thorny problems must be resolved before the country reaches a stable political condition.The matter of granting asylum to political refugees remains a thorny issue for the government.
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, 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
- 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
- There are two sides to every 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
- vexed question
- without question
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