TALK (SOMETHING) OUT


Meaning of TALK (SOMETHING) OUT in English

talk something ↔ out phrasal verb informal ( see also ↑ talk )

1 . to discuss a problem thoroughly in order to solve it:

We need to spend a little time talking this out.

talk something ↔ out with

It might help if you talked it out with Dad.

2 . British English if politicians talk out a proposal, they talk about it for a long time deliberately so that there will not be enough time to vote on it SYN filibuster :

The Land Protection Bill was talked out by MPs from rural areas.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.