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'Question back' can be used in written English. Basically, it means to ask a question in response to a statement. For example: Person 1: I think summer is the best season. Person 2: Question back - why is that?
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The brilliance of that famous crack is that Jesus turns the question back on the questioner, in mock-innocence.
I threw the question back to him.
He threw the question back.
LANE (to the court reporter): Read the question back.
"My question back to them is when will be enough?
He then turned the question back on the audience.
As a formality, Washington bucked the question back to Tallahassee.
In response, he flung an unprintable personal question back at us.
This simply pushes the question back to whether a person can hijack herself.
"What the report does is to put the question back to government," he said.
Instead, he turned the question back on what President Bush had done.
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