The phrase "a serious ask" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a request that is significant or important in nature.
Example: "I know this is a serious ask, but could you help me with this project on such short notice?"
Alternatives: "a significant request" or "an important ask".
"Are you serious?" asked a woman pushing a stroller along the sidewalk handing out Jehovah's Witnesses tracts door-to-door.
"@GovChristie are you serious?" asked a user named @steakprincess, who gives her name as Danielle Olivieri.
"Are you serious?" asked Belinda Jenkins, a disabled woman living in a trailer in front of her house in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans.
"How do you explain someone who is accomplished and upstanding for six decades all of a sudden engaging in an act that's this serious?" asked former Los Angeles County Dist.
Therefore, as a relationship is moving into a serious phase, ask each other: If we weren't in love, would we be friends?
If you can't bend in your pants you know you got a serious problem ask the sales person for advice or help don't be shy about it have fun with it that's what finding your ideal style is all about!
"Isn't 'Law and Order' a serious show?" asked Leslie Moonves, CBS's president and chief executive.
… A serious reporter asks the fire chief if he had brought a large enough crew, if they enough hoses, if the water pressure was sufficient.
But it was certainly refreshing to hear him try to jolly or shame his audience into a serious debate, asking, "Which one of you wants to yell next?" If only similar backbone were shown by politicians like Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican principal in the Senate's Gang of Six health care negotiations.
"Is that museum a serious one?" asks archaeologist Stephen Lubkemann of the George Washington Universityin Washington, D.C., who attended the meeting.
