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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