informal talk

  • 61talk turkey N. Amer. — talk turkey N. Amer. informal discuss frankly and openly. → turkey …

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  • 62talk someone's language — informal to communicate in a way that someone else can understand We just don t talk the same language as people like that …

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  • 63talk through your hat — informal to talk a lot about a subject that you do not really understand …

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  • 64talk a blue streak — ► talk a blue streak N. Amer. informal speak continuously and at great length. Main Entry: ↑blue …

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  • 65talk show — n. Radio TV a program featuring informal conversation, often on a particular topic or range of topics, between a host and, variously, guest celebrities and experts, members of a studio audience, or listeners or viewers telephoning from their… …

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  • 66talk|a|thon — «T kuh thon», noun. 1. Informal. a lengthy period of speaking or debating, similar to a filibuster. 2. a way of political campaigning, by answering questions for an unlimited amount of time before a radio or television audience …

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  • 67talk|er — «T kuhr», noun. 1. any person who talks: »The most fluent talkers…are not always the justest thinkers (William Hazlitt). SYNONYM(S): speaker, lecturer. 2. a talkative person. SYNONYM(S): gossip. 3. Informal. a barker for a side show …

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  • 68talk|ie — «T kee», noun. Informal. a motion picture with a synchronized sound track; talking picture: »It was not until the talkies came that the cinema divorced itself from reading (London Times) …

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  • 69talk about -! — informal used to emphasize that something is an extreme or striking example of a particular situation, state, or experience Talk about hangovers! But aching head or not we were getting ready …

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  • 70talk tough (on something) — talk ˈtough (on sth) idiom (informal, especially NAmE) to tell people very strongly what you want Main entry: ↑talkidiom …

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