The phrase "a legitimate answer to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing whether a response is valid or acceptable in relation to a specific question or issue.
Example: "The committee was satisfied that the report provided a legitimate answer to their concerns about funding."
Alternatives: "a valid response to" or "an acceptable reply to".
As long as he could get away with it, espionage was a legitimate answer to his troubles.
If the two turn out to be different, it will point towards the nature of the mysterious cosmic asymmetry.Besides being of huge interest (it would, after all, be a legitimate answer to the question "why are we here?"), such a result would also have a pleasing symmetry of its own.
A legitimate answer to these questions, an answer hard to swallow but worthy of public discussion, is this: if economic sanctions do not cause Iran to halt uranium enrichment, and if the United States, for reasons of its own, does not attack it – even then, it would be better for Israel not to attack, even if this means that Israel, gnashing its teeth, would have to live with a nuclear Iran.
Now, narcotics and late nights are not a legitimate answer to any anxiety, but communion of a friendship by night is a powerful outlet.
However, "No" is a perfectly legitimate answer to being asked.
The question is – does a person's sex and sexuality determine their ability to function in the workplace, wherever that workplace is? Frankly, there can only be one legitimate answer to this: absolutely not!
If they give you a legitimate answer, try to solve the problem.
If they do not have a legitimate answer, talk to your child on the importance of nutrition.
He was asked dozens of times Tuesday and Wednesday how he decided between them, and Ryan had yet to offer a legitimate answer.
When the team's false starts were mentioned, he said: "That's why I don't like to answer those questions or give a legitimate answer because we just don't know.
In the two-minute recording, Alvin is repeatedly heard asking the officers why they've stopped him, to which none of the officers provide a legitimate answer.
