to talk into
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3.0
- phrasal verb
- /tɔk ˈɪntu/
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convencer a
- His people were pissed off at me for talking him into it, especially his parents.
- try to talk someone into
He's trying to talk her into pleasuring him.
- He's trying to talk her into pleasuring him.
- And we certainly can't talk you into feeling better.
- Yes, you are you, you've, you've, you've talked people into many things in your life.
- I tried to talk my parents into auctioning their house off and it didn't.
- People would, you know, you could talk people into doing that.
- And I know your parents don't love you like I He actually talks her into staying.
- And you, you talk yourself into it by asking yourself a better quality question.
- So it's very clear that this is a book for the self reliant or the person who wants to be talked into being self reliant.
- They all left because they didn't want to work anymore because they lost her commander, but eventually talked them back into coming back to us.
- And so the big problem for me and for Jim, who played a big role, was to try to talk the faculty into doing that.
- And, you know, that the subtext in in my sense is the subtext in Brian's question is him trying to talk himself into believing that he's capable of doing this.
- So I shot a movie that I, I wrote with a buddy of mine, Ben Tischel from Miramax, and ended up getting talked into directing it too.
Examples
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Some of my most valuable friends are people who knew how to talk me into being more casual.
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"We go to museums sometimes when I can talk my family into it."
Fiction book (1990) -
People would, you know, you could talk people into doing that.
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How did we let him talk us into this?
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I'm not trying to talk a man into marriage.
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I can't believe I let you talk me into this.
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Well... we'll try and talk her into it, don't worry.
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He talked me into doing something I really didn't want to do.
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Rick couldn't wait to show it to Hugo, maybe talk him into getting one, too.
Fiction book (1995) -
She managed to talk into her friend to join the club after explaining all the benefits.
Synonyms
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2.7
Make someone believe something is true or agree to do something
472
2.7
To make someone agree or do something by giving reasons
61
4.9
To persuade someone to do something by offering something they want
54
4.1
To gently persuade someone by being kind and patient
51
4.9
Persuade someone to do something
23
5.3
To persuade someone by saying nice things to them
18
3.0
Make someone think differently about something
15
7.7
To persuade someone to do something by gentle talk and praise
2
5.4
Convince someone to join an activity, often when they do not want to
1
4.4
Get someone to agree or do something by pressuring them
1
7.9
Talk strongly to someone to try to persuade them
1
6.8
To persuade someone to do something they would not do on their own
To persuade someone to accept your idea or plan
Antonyms
How Persuasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly related to the constituents: 'talk' (to speak) combined with 'into' (indicating movement/change into a state) yields the idea of speaking someone into a different state or action, so learners can often infer 'persuade'. However, the particle use in phrasal verbs is partly idiomatic and its causative effect is not completely predictable across languages and learners, so it requires some exposure.
Etymology
The phrasal verb talk into creates a clear picture: imagine talk going 'into' a person to change their mind. So if you are talked into something, someone used words to push you 'into' doing it, which means 'to persuade someone to do something'.