| 单词 | cross-questions and crooked answers |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross-questions and crooked answers c. cross-questions and crooked answers: a game of questions and answers in which a ludicrous effect is produced by connecting questions and answers which have nothing to do with one another; as e.g. the question of one's neighbour on the right with the answer given to another question by one's neighbour on the left. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > question and answer games purposec1380 questions and commands1628 cross-purposes1666 cross-questions and crooked answers1742 Yes and No1843 truth1868 clumps1883 truth game1908 1742 J. Yarrow Love at First Sight 2 As if you had been playing at cross-Questions. 1884 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 22/1 ‘I'm afraid, doctor, we are playing at cross-questions and crooked answers.’ < as lemmas |
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