good question

Meaning

1. Editorial75% of films

   Used to grant that a question is apt or insightful and worth taking up, often as a lead-in before answering or working it through, even when the speaker does know.

2. Oxford25% of films

   used to show that you do not know the answer to a question

In the movies · 33

• That's a good question. You want to answer that, Sadness?Inside Out2015
• - I am taken care of. - What does that mean?Twelve Monkeys1995
• Uh, yeah. Sure. And good question.Leo2023
• Good question, very good question. Intelligent.Twelve Monkeys1995
• That's a good question.Cinderella Man2005
• That's a good question.Pollock2000
• That's a good question.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011
• That's a good question.The Waterboy1998

Learn it in full scenes

• Inside Out2015
  • Broccoli on the Pizza
  • Sadness Nearly Touches a Core Memory
  • Riley Introduces Herself and Cries

From the same entry

• bring into question
• come into question
• in question
• just a question of
• out of the question
• there is no question of
• beg the question
• call into question
• a moot point
• pop the question

More everyday phrases

• what can i get you
• long story short
• what happened to you
• i swear
• we have to talk
• after you
• can i get you anything
• proud of you
• i can handle it
• one step at a time
• let's get this over with
• one second