talk out

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.
   • You two are staying in the detention room until you talk it out.
   • No need to talk it out / We know what it's all about1971, “Rainy Days and Mondays”, in Paul Williams, Roger Nichols (music), Carpenters, performed by The Carpenters
2. To speak out (about something).
   • We have never had the courage to talk out about it. I have, and I have been kicked out of several parties.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
   • 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.2019 May 23, L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 11: Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger, Routledge, →ISBN
3. (transitive, parliamentary jargon) To filibuster (a bill).
   • talk out the bill
   • talk out a bill
4. (transitive) To exhaust conversation about; to say all that there is to say about.
   • The interruption was a telephone call and Nickle crossed over to the small table by the door while the other two, the subject of Eliza talked out, waited to hear if there was any new development.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London