1. burning question - Noun
2. burning question - Phrase
burning question (plural burning questions)
(idiomatic) An important and pertinent question that urgently requires an answer.
We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. Kevin Costner
Our burning question as to the whence and whither - all we can ourselves observe about it is the present environment. Erwin Schrödinger
I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?' Drew Barrymore
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. Thomas Frank
And the burning question we have is, does she have an extra toe? Source: Internet
As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction? Source: Internet