kitbag questionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

kitbag question (複数形 kitbag questions)

1. (humorous) A question which causes a disadvantage to the asker simply by virtue of being asked.
   • 1996 January 21, Vernon Everett, “copywrited kenders”, in rec.games.frp.dnd‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I think the original question was a stupid one in the first place. What we in army used to call a "kit-bag question"

   • 2002 January 13, Lisa, “Homosexuality unnatural? Was Re: Taliban-like extremists”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Find me something assur, and if I want an exception made, I'll ask a shayla. Find me something ambiguous, and if I want clarification made, I'll ask a shayla. I'm not about to go around asking kitbag questions.

   • 2006, Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 94–95:

     One of my friends, dizzy with fatigue, asked him if we needed to bring the squad's jerry-cans with us on the long march to the exercise. "Yes," Evgeny said, smiling wickedly. "Bring the jerry-cans." ¶ At that moment we could have committed murder. My friend had asked a classic Israeli army "kitbag" question—the entirely unnecessary question that only serves to make things worse. Only a schlemiel asks a kitbag question.

   • 2007 June 1, Philologos, “The Kitbag Question”, in The Forward‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-07-01:

     In Yiddish, a kitbag question is known as a klots-kashe, or "klutz question," our English "klutz" coming from Yiddish klots, a block of wood.

参照

Further reading

• kitbag question on Wikipedia.