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
- (transitive) To exhaust conversation about; to say all that there is to say about.
- 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
- The interruption was a telephone call and Nickle crossed over to the small table by the door while the other two, the subject of Eliza talked out, waited to hear if there was any new development.
Related terms
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[edit]to resolve a problem by talking about it
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to persuade someone not to do something
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