cash for questions
/ˌkæʃ fə ˈkwestʃənz/
/ˌkæʃ fər ˈkwestʃənz/
- (in the UK) the name given to events in 1996 when some conservative Members of Parliament were accused of accepting money from business people in order to ask questions for them in Parliament. The 'cash for questions affair' was one of the reasons why the Conservatives were so badly defeated in the 1997 general election.
问钱：1996年的活动的名称，当时一些保守的国会议员被指控从商人那里收钱，以便在国会向他们提问。“现金问题”是保守党在1997年大选中如此惨败的原因之一。