talk round

British  

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

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talk round

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.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Edward roused himself with an effort, and shook off the melancholy which had crept over his face as he listened to the talk round the table.

From In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young by Evelyn Everett-Green

But topics exhaust themselves and, at the last, I myself brought the talk round to the Fourth Dimension.

From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad

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

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

You can be clever about it," said Ishmael, a new look that was almost suspicion glinting in his eyes; "I can't talk round a thing, but I know things.

From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse