talk into

British  

verb

1. (tr, preposition) to persuade to by talking

   I talked him into buying the house

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talk into Idioms  

1. 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).

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Example Sentences

She talked into the receiver for another few seconds, then hung up.

From Literature

The police officer leans his head over, talks into the walkie-talkie hooked to his shoulder, “Yeah, I have a Gabriel Meyer here. Looks like we found who started the fire.”

From Literature

They admit they had to be talked into making a second album so soon.

From BBC

Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Some chefs need to be talked into taking the turkey challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal

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