talk out

present singular third person talks out · participle present talking out · participle past talked out · past talked out

1. transitiveTo resolve (a problem) by talking about it.

   You two are staying in the detention room until you talk it out.

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   No need to talk it out / We know what it's all about

   1971, “Rainy Days and Mondays”, in Paul Williams, Roger Nichols (music), Carpenters, performed by The Carpenters

   Well-meaning friends may [...] not listen and help us talk out our grief and pain.

   2014 January 2, Tim P Van Duivendyk, The Unwanted Gift of Grief: A Ministry Approach, Routledge, →ISBN

2. To speak out (about something).

   We have never had the courage to talk out about it. I have, and I have been kicked out of several parties.

   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

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   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.

   2019 May 23, L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 11: Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger, Routledge, →ISBN

3. transitiveparliamentary jargonTo filibuster (a bill).

   talk out a bill

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   talk out the bill

4. transitiveTo exhaust conversation about; to say all that there is to say about.

   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.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London