ask the question
Voice your query
To ask the question is to pose a specific inquiry that everyone knows is coming but no one has yet voiced—often a marriage proposal or another momentous question whose answer determines what happens next: He finally asked the question, and she said yes.
The phrase can also mean simply to raise an obvious issue: Someone needs to ask the question: is this project worth continuing?
- enquireRequest information formally
- poseDeliberate bodily arrangement
- put it toDefeated decisively, slang
- interrogateQuestion formally and persistently
- quizBrief informal test
query · consult · survey · go up for · probe · clarification · investigate · examine · solicit · scrutinize · engagement · doubt · curiosity · debate · conversation · exploration · petition · demand
ask the questionassume
Accept as true
presume · take for granted · jump to conclusions · guess · suppose
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