talk into

verb

1. tr, preposition to persuade to by talking

   I talked him into buying the house

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).

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