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View synonyms for talk into
talk into
verb
- tr, preposition to persuade to by talking
I talked him into buying the house
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Idioms and Phrases
Persuade, as in They talked me into going swimming with them . This idiom was first recorded in 1697. The antonym is talk out of , meaning “dissuade,” as in They tried to talk me out of going swimming . It is almost a century newer, first recorded in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1797–1798).Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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