real talk
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7.7
- noun
- /riːəl tɔk/
- Slang
:
hablar en serio
- OK, so real talk, did you know what a landline was?
- time for real talk
- just real talk
- real talk show
He he worked in facts and real talk, in plain speak.
- He he worked in facts and real talk, in plain speak.
- But the point is we just have to have real talk to be able to get through hard situations.
- OK, so I have something for this and it's some some real talk.
- So real talk, this is my favorite question that everyone hates.
- OK, Now the next girl you're trying to hook up with, real talk, does she come through with the dilly?
- It's going to be a combination of acapella performances, spoken word and real talk.
- If you're actually miserable, real talk, like if you don't wake up on Monday and you're like, yeah, right.
- Is it too cold where you live? Is it too hot where you live? Does it rain too much? Now it's time for some real talk.
- OK, real talk, if you add ask me that two weeks ago I would've said how much I hated it.
- And I haven't really vlogged in Paris, but real talk, the last two months, I've probably had some of my lowest mental health yet.
- OK, real talk again, it is the point of this whole thing to get rid of books that won't work for me.
- We're going to be doing some more some real talk videos about life, which turned into a little bit of a sketch comedy sketches as well.
- You know, because real talk, if if Layla wasn't an exceptional CEO, then we wouldn't like Layla wouldn't be the CEO, you know what I mean?
Examples
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Okay, Keys, let's have a real talk.
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What she needed to do was have a real talk with him.
Fiction book (1991) -
Baby, we have to have a real talk.
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I can feed my soul with real talk about this sort of stuff.
Blog text (9) -
But the point is we just have to have real talk to be able to get through hard situations.
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I like getting to know the person behind the blog and doing a little "real talk" now and then.
Blog text (21) -
Well, here is some unfortunate real talk.
Blog text (28) -
And yeah, we're just, we're just, it's just a whole load of like relaxed, raw, real talk fun.
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Well, if you won't listen to reason... then we'll have a real talk.
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I decided to sit down and have a real talk with her about our future.
Synonyms
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9.7
A formal serious talk about a specific topic
1
3.5
Serious conversation that looks closely at important or difficult ideas
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4.2
A calm, serious talk where people think carefully and avoid strong feelings
Antonyms
How Direct
- Slang
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7.7
- Informal
65
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'honest, straightforward conversation' is directly and compositionally derived from 'real' (genuine) modifying 'talk' (a conversation), so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. Although colloquial, the semantic relation is transparent and follows an ordinary modifier+noun pattern common across languages, making it accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase real talk comes from people using real to mean 'honest' and talk for a conversation, creating the image of a plain, serious chat. That's why real talk means 'honest, straightforward conversation', often about difficult or important matters.