talk out
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]talk out (third-person singular simple present talks out, present participle talking out, simple past and past participle talked out)
- (transitive) To resolve (a problem) by talking about it.
- Coordinate terms: hash out, work out, work through, talk through, hug out, fight out
- You two are staying in the detention room until you talk it out.
- 1971, “Rainy Days and Mondays”, in Paul Williams, Roger Nichols (music), Carpenters, performed by The Carpenters:
- No need to talk it out / We know what it's all about
- 2014 January 2, Tim P Van Duivendyk, The Unwanted Gift of Grief: A Ministry Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Well-meaning friends may [...] not listen and help us talk out our grief and pain.
- To speak out (about something).
- 1945, United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Full Employment Act of 1945, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ..., 79-1 on S.380 ..., July 30 ... September 1, 1945, page 641:
- We have never had the courage to talk out about it. I have, and I have been kicked out of several parties.
- 2019 May 23, L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 11: Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger, Routledge, →ISBN:
- But first, he says that you've got a lot of strength to talk out about this. [...] You are brave to think and talk about this.
- (parliamentary jargon, transitive) To filibuster (a bill).
- talk out the bill; talk out a bill
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to resolve a problem by talking about it
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to persuade someone not to do something
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