talking 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.
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
3. (transitive, parliamentary jargon) To filibuster (a bill).
   • talk out the 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