英语词汇ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer
词源	ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer. Still a com- mon expression, the above probably dates to the late 19th cen- tury. It possibly evolved from the old proverb “ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies.”
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