talk sense

Idioms  

1. 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

“Before the election it was possible to talk sense to the president,” Barr said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2022

The former attorney general said that he “felt that before the election, it was possible to talk sense to the president.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2022

"She was always trying to convince me, to talk sense into me because she is a mother, she is clever and I am stupid," he said.

From Reuters • Mar. 8, 2022

Embiid was among a small group of Sixers that tried to visit with Simmons in the offseason and talk sense into him, only to get rebuffed by the No. 1 pick of the 2016 draft.

From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2021

“You mean you’re getting out on that balcony in front of fifty thousand crazy crackpots and try to talk sense to them—on a balcony like a medieval dictator?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov