Do you always answer a question with a question?

[Bretrick]

I understand it allows the person to avoid answering a potentially uncomfortable or incriminating question directly.
Something to hide?

 

[Nathan]

Do you always answer a question with a question?

"Always", that's pretty damning. Sometimes a person's question needs to be questioned.

 

[againstthegrain]

Are you referring to my wife?

 

[Jules]

Bret, why do you ask?

 

[againstthegrain]

LOL

 

[Babs2u]

I understand it allows the person to avoid answering a potentially uncomfortable or incriminating question directly.
Something to hide?

Why do you ask? LOL

 

[hollydolly]

I understand it allows the person to avoid answering a potentially uncomfortable or incriminating question directly.
Something to hide?

that honestly drives me nuts..My now X husband was the one who was guilty of this all the time.. never a straight answer to anything....

 

[againstthegrain]

^^^

me - "what do you want for dinner tonight?"

my wife - "well we had chicken last night."

 

[Kaila]

I understand it allows the person to avoid answering a potentially uncomfortable or incriminating question directly.
Something to hide?

Do you think so?

 

[jujube]

Sure, doesn't everyone?

 

[Bretrick]

Do you think so?

Only you know

 

[Naturally]

What sort of question?

 

[Lewkat]

Why not?

 

[horseless carriage]

Harold Wilson, one of Britain's wilier Prime Ministers of the 1960's and 1970's, when asked by an interviewer:
"Why do you always answer a question with a question?" He replied: "Who told you that?"

It's something that seasoned politicians have learned. By throwing a question straight back, you keep the conversation going in the direction you want it to.