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View synonyms for on speaking terms

on speaking terms

  1. Friendly enough to exchange superficial remarks, as in We're on speaking terms with the new neighbors .

  2. Ready and willing to communicate, not alienated or estranged. For example, We are on speaking terms again after the quarrel . Both senses of this idiom commonly occur in the negative, as in Brett and his brother haven't been on speaking terms for years . The idiom was first recorded in 1786.



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