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talk round
verb
- Alsotalk over tr, adverb to persuade to one's opinion
I talked him round to buying a car
- intr, preposition to discuss the arguments relating to (a subject), esp without coming to a conclusion
to talk round the problem of the human condition
- intr, preposition to discuss (a subject) vaguely without considering basic facts
they talked round the idea of moving house quite forgetting they hadn't enough money
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Simplest plan is to stop this interminable talk round the Address and get to work.
I soon led our talk round to what she had been doing during my absence.
Coming back, approach identical question from slightly different point of view; talk round it for another two hours.
I saw the cause in the priest's own face, when our father's name turned up in the talk round the supper-table.
For the crippled boy had gone on with his cooking, regardless of the talk round him, and his rabbit was done.
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