Answer
Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Put to
Both terms in one sentence
- Notoriously difficult to interview since they hardly ever give a straight answer to any question put to them, instead usually saying something surreal or non sequitur.
Source: Cloudcuckoolander / Other - Morecambe and Wise did a sketch in which Eric was supposed to be a 'Memory Man' who could answer any question put to him, but Ernie had to feed him the first answer (Arsenal - a soccer team) disguised by a cough.
Source: *Cough* Snark *Cough* - In the 2008 film Yes-Man, the protagonist Carl takes it upon himself to answer "yes" to every request put to him.
Source: Moral Luck
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