to talk out of
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4.0
- phrasal verb
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disuadir a
- Don't you dare let your old man talk you out of going back to camp, OK?
- talk out of walking
- talk out of walking away
I let myself be talked out of what I wanted to do.
- I let myself be talked out of what I wanted to do.
- There is so much pain, Jay, in talking yourself out of trying things.
- And everybody is sort of trying to talk him out of it.
- And you know, but again, I could have talked myself out of it.
- You can rationalize why you feel so bad, or you can talk yourself out of it.
- But I guess what I'm trying to get at is a lot of women, successful women, are being talked out of embracing the man who's truly best for them.
- And and her mother, of course, is, is freaked out and is trying to talk her out of it.
- You know, there's a, there's a level of insight and intellect that you need to have in order to be able to talk yourself out of your own training plan.
- And the rhetoric out there about hard work, what I like about it is, is trying to talk you out of being a lazy bastard.
Examples
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I knew both of them; I had tried to talk them out of their plan.
Fiction book (1999) -
Any chance of talking him out of it?
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I let myself be talked out of what I wanted to do.
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And if I had let people talk me out of it, how can I put it?
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And my staff in fact tried to talk me out of it because they valued their jobs.
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I tried to talk her out of it.
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For the rest of the weekend, Peter tried to talk John out of it.
Fiction book (1996) -
Look, don't try and talk me out of it.
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You can't talk me out of this one.
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I want you to talk out of doing something dangerous before it's too late.
Synonyms
35
6.0
To try to stop someone from doing something by talking to them
18
3.0
Make someone think differently about something
Antonyms
How Persuasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
talk + out + of
The components 'talk' (speak) + 'out' (away/outwards) give a hint of speaking someone away from something, so there is a partial, metaphorical link to persuading someone not to do something. However, the exact meaning and the fixed pattern 'talk (someone) out of (something)' is a phrasal-prepositional verb that learners usually must have seen in context to predict reliably, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Talk out of comes from a simple image: you use talk to pull an idea out of someone's mind, removing the plan or wish they had. That's why it means 'to persuade someone not to do something'.