talk round

verb

1. Also: talk over. (tr, adverb) to persuade to one's opinion

   I talked him round to buying a car

2. (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

3. (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

Example Sentences

No wonder the idea of learning how to talk round a large mass of people was something that Athenian aristocrats—traditionally *So named, supposedly, because it met on a big rock above Athens.

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Quiet night, with further talk round Parish Councils Bill.

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The girls' tongues would run on frankly and pleasantly enough about their London visit, or Mr. Gladstone; but let him bring the talk round to his parish and its people, and forthwith something of reserve seemed to come between him and them until the conversation strayed afield again.

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There was queer talk round the hearth here of doings in Paris,--of a stir against the Cardinal, with the Queen-mother at bottom, and of grounded expectations that something might this time come of it.

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So incredibly simple is the relation between God and man—simple, unconstrained, heedless and tender as the talk round a table in Nazareth.

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