The phrase "a foolish question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a question that seems silly or lacks common sense, often in a context where the answer is obvious.
Example: "While I appreciate your curiosity, I must say that asking if the sun rises in the east is a foolish question."
Alternatives: "a silly question" or "an absurd question".
There is no such thing as a foolish question.
As if it were a foolish question, and one that nobody knew the answer to.
Asked if she would have sold her seventh child, if it had been a boy, she could not understand how anyone could ask such a foolish question.
When I asked why he thought they'd dedicated the book to him, a foolish question really, the old Barney flared up and snapped, "Read it and you'll find out".
(Also: It's a foolish question because the 1992 team had Michael Jordan. You're not going to beat them, at that time Jordan could lead a team of wacky talking animals to beat superior teams filled with aliens).
That may seem like a foolish question to pose right now, this being a year in which earnings growth at financial institutions has trounced the reported growth of any other industry.
"Ina had this ability to tell senior people, in a very nice way, without actually saying it, that the question they had asked her about her business was a very foolish question," says a former JPMorgan Chase executive who went head to head with Drew more than a few times.
He could have said, "The Prime Minister of the country that you love". A reporter asked me the same foolish question, and somehow compared it to Ilhan Omar, and I almost had to laugh, but I didn't, because it is serious.
I often ask her this foolish question; it's become a tradition.
"Yes," he once told a carping critic, "it all comes down to this foolish question, how to win".
Here are the facts(or false information) that have me stumped concerning this seemingly foolish question.
