"cautious answer" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are being careful or not saying much in response to a question. For example, "I asked him if he wanted to go out for dinner, but he just gave me a cautious answer."
Mr Cayton will only give a cautious answer.
Then he added, with an apologetic look, "I know that's a cautious answer, but under the circumstances it's the best I can give".
Ronald Noble, the head of INTERPOL, reckons this will eventually make it tougher for, say, producers of counterfeit pharmaceuticals to get their fakes into legitimate supply chains.Asked where Google will focus its efforts in future, Eric Schmidt, the firm's executive chairman, gives a cautious answer.
After a yearlong debate over whether grade inflation exists at Harvard, and whether -- if it does -- it blurs the distinction between truly excellent students and those who are merely good, a committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences came back with a cautious answer of yes to both questions.
In a blog post, Nest's vice president of engineering Matt Rogers set out a question-and-answer set, where a key one was "Will Nest customer data be shared with Google?" To which Rogers's cautious answer is: "Our privacy policy clearly limits the use of customer information to providing and improving Nest's products and services.
Where is our optimism now? …Machine learning, is the cautious answer.
"We're getting fairly reasonable, if cautious, answers," said David Gibson, one of three partners.
He is trying to remain "Johnny B. Goode" (the song blares over a loudspeaker at some McCain rallies), giving relatively cautious answers and trying to rein in his pugnacity, if not his wisecracks.
And, in a series of cautious answers that reflected the power of the issue, both men also reiterated their support for giving same-sex couples the right to form civil unions but repeated their opposition to gay marriage.
He was cautious when answering questions, and was careful not to criticize the new Administration.
Beamonte was cautious about answering questions about whether customers might have been exposed to contaminated meat previously because of Silvercrest practices.
