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Idioms and Phrases

Speak rationally and coherently, as in Ranting and raving won't help; it's time we talked sense , or I wish you'd talk some sense into that son of yours . Shakespeare used this idiom in slightly different form in The Merry Wives of Windsor (2:1): “Believe it, Page, he speaks sense.”
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Example Sentences

He is by himself a great deal, praying, I reckon, but he is very sociable if any one will talk sense.

I don't believe women hear ye, when you talk sense of that kind.

I am far too keen an observer of human nature to think we can talk sense to deaf ears with any benefit.

If you only knew what a comfort it would be to talk sense instead of that incessant chaff, you would read a little more.

You ask me to talk sense, when I find my own hat standing on the floor in the hall, and used as a—a receptacle for walnuts!

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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