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Talk out of   /tɔk aʊt əv/   Listen
Talk out of

verb
1.
Persuade someone not to do something.






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"Talk out of" Quotes from Famous Books



... our prospects, and how lucky we had been up to date, not getting stepped on by any financial magnate or other tall city monument. He wasn't a talkative man himself. It was especially hard to pry any football talk out of him, probably because he was so modest. When we insisted he would finally open up, and tell us the inside facts about some great college game that we knew by heart from the newspaper accounts. And he would mention all the famous players by their first names—you ...
— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch



Words linked to "Talk out of" :   dissuade, deter, talk into



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