| 单词 | home question |
| 释义 | > as lemmashome question home question n. now rare a direct or pointed question, esp. one of a personal nature (cf. sense B. 3). ΚΠ 1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. ii. x. 229 Now This was a very short Answer, to a Home Question. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxv. 198 I will be your Judge, and put home Questions to you. 1878 J. Payn By Proxy II. xi. 111 ‘How much has he a year?’ inquired Mrs. Wardlaw simply. ‘Well, really,’ said Miss Milburn, ‘that is rather a home-question.’ 1977 D. W. Jones Drowned Ammet (2003) xii. 142 That was a home question. < as lemmas |
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