Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Trouble
Trouble noun - Something that requires thought and skill for resolution.
Usage example: the police officers first broke up the fight and then asked what the trouble was
How words are described
| particular | particular answer | particular trouble |
| short | short answer | short trouble |
| actual | actual answer | actual trouble |
| real | real answer | real trouble |
| Other adjectives: big, serious, bad, immediate, general, possible. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He still has trouble with this, although in stories like "Ayla and the Networks" he demonstrates that sometimes the answer is months of scheming and sneakiness beforehand.
Source: Violence Really Is the Answer -
He knows that Ax has trouble with metaphors (even pronouncing multi-syllable words is tricky), so he warns him to only answer questions by saying "Yes" or "No".
Source: Who's on First? -
There is a Shaggy Dog Story about a man who repeatedly gets into progressively worse trouble (culminating in a courtroom case) for uttering the phrase "purple flower", because he keeps saying it when asking people what it means and getting into trouble instead of getting an answer.
Source: Informed Obscenity
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