talk sense


Speak rationally and coherently, as in Ranting and raving won't help; it's time we talked sense, or I wish you'd talk some sense into that son of yours. Shakespeare used this idiom in slightly different form in The Merry Wives of Windsor (2:1): “Believe it, Page, he speaks sense.”

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How to use talk sense in a sentence

  • He is by himself a great deal, praying, I reckon, but he is very sociable if any one will talk sense.

    A California Girl | Edward Eldridge
  • I don't believe women hear ye, when you talk sense of that kind.

    Rhoda Fleming, Complete | George Meredith
  • I am far too keen an observer of human nature to think we can talk sense to deaf ears with any benefit.

    Uncle Max | Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • If you only knew what a comfort it would be to talk sense instead of that incessant chaff, you would read a little more.

    Piccadilly | Laurence Oliphant
  • You ask me to talk sense, when I find my own hat standing on the floor in the hall, and used as a—a receptacle for walnuts!

    Eliza | Barry Pain