talk out

English

Verb

talk out (third-person singular simple present talks out, present participle talking out, simple past and past participle talked out)

1. (transitive) To resolve (a problem) by talking about it.
   • 1971, “Rainy Days and Mondays”, in Paul Williams, Roger Nichols (music), Carpenters, performed by The Carpenters:

     No need to talk it out / We know what it's all about

   • 2014 January 2, Tim P Van Duivendyk, The Unwanted Gift of Grief: A Ministry Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Well-meaning friends may [...] not listen and help us talk out our grief and pain.

2. To speak out (about something).
   • 1945, United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Full Employment Act of 1945, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ..., 79-1 on S.380 ..., July 30 ... September 1, 1945, page 641:

     We have never had the courage to talk out about it. I have, and I have been kicked out of several parties.

   • 2019 May 23, L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 11: Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger, Routledge, →ISBN:

     But first, he says that you've got a lot of strength to talk out about this. [...] You are brave to think and talk about this.

Translations

to resolve a problem by talking about it

• Dutch: uitpraten (nl)
• Galician: tratar (gl)
• German: ausdiskutieren (de)
• Hungarian: kibeszél (hu)

See also

• talk out of

Anagrams

• outtalk