See wife-beating question on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From wife-beating + question, with reference to the oft-cited example \"Have you stopped beating your wife?\".",
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"ref": "1984, British House of Commons debate, Hansard vol. 70, 20 Dec 1984",
"text": "Mr. [Tony] Banks: When the Leader of the House sees his right hon. friend the Prime Minister, will he ask her to come to the Dispatch Box and condemn picket line violence by the police?\nMr. [John] Biffen: That is the most obvious and plain wife-beating question that I have ever heard asked."
},
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"ref": "2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "Amis also recounts some aggressive questions allegedly put by him to me and to James Fenton in our (James's and my) Trotskyist years, when all three of us were colleagues at the New Statesman. The questions are so plainly wife-beating questions, and the answers so clearly intended to pacify the aggressor by offering a mocking agreement [...].",
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"A question that presupposes some controversial premise, such that it cannot be directly answered without incriminating oneself or, at least, unintentionally conceding a point; a loaded question."
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"(rhetoric) A question that presupposes some controversial premise, such that it cannot be directly answered without incriminating oneself or, at least, unintentionally conceding a point; a loaded question."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "另有用意的問題"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lìngyǒu yòngyì de wèntí",
"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "另有用意的问题"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "\"joko olet lakannut hakkaamasta vaimoasi\" -kysymys"
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"sense": "loaded question",
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"word": "провокацио́нный вопро́с"
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"alt": "voprós típa «Vy užé perestáli pitʹ konʹják po utrám?»",
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"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "вопро́с ти́па «Вы уже́ переста́ли пить конья́к по утра́м?»"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "另有用意的問題"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lìngyǒu yòngyì de wèntí",
"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "另有用意的问题"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "\"joko olet lakannut hakkaamasta vaimoasi\" -kysymys"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "loaded question",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "loaded question",
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"alt": "voprós típa «Vy užé perestáli pitʹ konʹják po utrám?»",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "loaded question",
"word": "вопро́с ти́па «Вы уже́ переста́ли пить конья́к по утра́м?»"
},
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"code": "es",
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"tags": [
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"word": "wife-beating question"
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