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burning question
Idioms and Phrases
An urgent or crucial issue under heated discussion. For example, Real estate taxes are always a burning question for the town leaders . This term has exact equivalents in French ( question brûlante ) and German ( brennende Frage ). [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Everyone, from regular Koreans to world leaders, was left with the same burning question:
How she would be received by the notoriously liberal Hollywood elite became a burning question.
For conservationists, the ferocious Franklin fire and other recent blazes raise a burning question: Is it possible to break this feedback loop and turn the clock back on an increasingly flammable ecosystem?
However, having reached the pinnacle of the sport he had dedicated his life to, Stona woke up one day with a burning question on his mind: what next?
The burning question facing America is: Will the other basic drive, which Freud called Eros and Harris and Walz call joy, provide us with an alternative?
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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