ask a silly question and get a silly answer
ask a silly question and (you|you will) get a silly answerask a silly question and get a silly answer
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used to suggest that the quality of a question influences the quality of the answer, and that a poorly thought-out or irrelevant question is unlikely to result in a useful answer
Proverb
Exempel
The reporter asked the politician a ridiculous question about building a tunnel to the moon, and the politician responded with some nonsense about pink elephants. It was a classic example of the saying ' ask a silly question and get a silly answer.'
