| 单词 | a civil question deserves a civil answer | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasa civil question deserves a civil answer  e.    a civil question deserves a civil answer. ΚΠ 1853    T. C. Haliburton Sam Slick's Wise Saws II. ii. 48  				Give a civil answer to a civil question. 1858    S. A. Hammett Piney Woods Tavern xxvii. 285  				The Squire there asked me a civil question, and that desarves a civil answer,—at least that's manners where I come from. 1938    M. H. Elliott Uncle Sam Ward & his Circle 548  				At good dinners people do not talk shop, but they give people a right, perhaps, to ask a gentleman a civil question and to get a civil answer. 2006    Mercury News 		(San Jose, Ca.)	 		(Nexis)	 10 Sept.  				I kept my cool, pointing out calmly between salvos that I was merely asking a civil question that deserved a civil reply. < as lemmas | 
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