talk turkey

talk /tↄ:k/ v

၁။ ~ (to/with sb) (about/of sth/sb) ပြောသည်။ စကားပြောသည်။ စကားလက်ဆုံကျသည်။ ဆွေးနွေးသည်။ talk non-stop ❍ We talked (ie to each other) for almost an hour. ❍ I could hear them talking downstairs. ❍ He was talking to/with a friend. ❍ What are they talking about? ❍ She talked of applying for another job ❍ Are they talking in Spanish or Portuguese? ❍ You can always talk to me if you've got a problem. ❍ speak
၂။ စကား ပြောတတ်သည်။ children learning to talk.
၃။ ဆွေးနွေးသည်။ talk business/politics/football.
၄။ ပြောသည်။ She talks a lot of sense. ❍ You're talking rubbish/nonsense.
၅။ … ဘာသာဖြင့်ပြောသည်။ … လို ပြောသည်။ talk French.
၆။ (အသံပြာအောင် စသည်) ပြောသည်။ talk oneself hoarse.
၇။ သမုတ်သည်။ We must stop meeting like this—people are beginning to talk! ❍ You'll have to be more discreet if you don't want to get yourself talked about.
၈။ ထွက်သည်။ ပြောသည်။ The police questioned him for hours but he refused to talk.
၉။ စကားပြောတတ်သည်။ You can teach some parrots to talk.
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၁။ [C] စကားလက်ဆုံပြောခြင်း။ ဆွေးနွေးခြင်း။ I had a long talk with my boss about my career prospects. ❍ We'll have to have a serious talk about this soon.
၂။ [U] (က) လက်တွေ့မပါသောအပြော။ လေ။ Don't worry—his threats are just talk. ❍ Politicians are all talk—they never actually do anything. ❍ There's too much talk and not enough work being done. (ခ) ကောလာဟလ။ သတင်းပြေး ခြင်း။ There's (some) talk of a general election.
၃။ [C] ဟောပြောချက်။ မိန့်ခွန်း။ She gave a talk on her visit to China.
၄။ talks [pl] တရားဝင်ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းခြင်း။ ဆွေးနွေး ပွဲ။ arms talks ❍ The latest round of pay talks has broken down. ❍ Further talks aimed at producing peace will be held next month.
၅။ [U] (esp in compounds) စကားပြောပုံ၊ ဟန်။ … စကား။ baby-talk ❍ sales talk. See also SMALL TALK, SWEET TALK
❏ look who's talking [IDM ] (infml ) ကိုယ့်မျက်ချေး ကိုယ်မမြင်၊ သူများမျက်ချေးကိုမြင်။ မင်းကများပြောရသေးတယ်၊ ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ်ပြန်ကြည့်ဦး။
❏ now you're talking [IDM ] (infml ) ဒီလိုမှပေါ့။ Take the day off? Now you're talking!
❏ talk about … [IDM ] (infml ) (လေးနက်စေရန် ပြောသော စကား)။ အိုး မပြောပါနဲ့တော့၊ မကြုံဖူးပါဘူး။ ရှာမှရှားပဲ။ Talk about expensive! I've never known a place like it.
❏ talk at sb [PHRV ] တစ်ဦးတည်းဒိုင်ခံပြောသည်။ You can't have a proper conversation with him—he just talks at you all the time.
❏ talkative /'tↄ:kǝtÇv/ adj စကားများသော။ a very talkative child ❍ Are you feeling all right? You're not very talkative this evening.
❏ talk back (to sb) [PHRV ] ပြန်ပက်သည်။ She doesn't like her pupils to talk back to her.
❏ talk sb down [PHRV ] … ၏အသံကိုလွှမ်းအောင် အော်ပြော သည်။
❏ talk sb/sth down [PHRV ] လေယာဉ်ဆင်းသက်နိုင်ရန် မြေပြင်မှညွှန်ကြားသည်။
❏ talk down to sb [PHRV ] အထက်စီးမှပြောသည်။ နှိမ်ပြော သည်။ I can't stand politicians who talk down to the public.
❏ talker n
၁။ (esp with an adj ) နှုတ်(ရေး) …သူ။ a brilliant/constant/reluctant talker ❍ She's a great talker (ie She talks a lot).
၂။ အပြောသမား။ Don't rely on him to do anything—he's just a talker.
❏ talk the hind legs off a donkey [IDM ] (infml ) နားငြီး လောက်အောင် စကားကြောရှည်သည်။
❏ talking of sb/sth [IDM ] စကားစပ်မိလို့ပြောရဦးမယ်။ Talking of Jim, have you heard that he's getting married?
❏ talking-point n ဆွေးနွေးရန်အချက်။ The main talking-point at the conference was the new tax on imports.
❏ talking-to n [sing] ဆူခြင်း။ ကြိမ်းခြင်း။ That child needs a good talking-to.
❏ talk sb into/out of doing sth [PHRV ] စည်းရုံးသည်။ ဖျောင်းဖျသည်။ နားချသည်။ He talked his father into lending him the car. ❍ I tried to talk her out of leaving.
❏ the talk of sth [IDM ] … လုံး ပါးစပ်ဖျားတွင်ရှိနေသည့် ကိစ္စ။ Her resignation was the talk of the office.
❏ talk sth out [PHRV ] ရင်ဖွင့်သည်။ Sometimes it's better to talk out a problem than to keep it to yourself.
❏ talk sth over (with sb) [PHRV ] အကျေအလည် ဆွေးနွေး သည်။ talk over your problems with sb ❍ Her parents talked it over and decided to give her their permission.
❏ talk round sth [PHRV ] သဝေထိုးသည်။ We wasted a whole hour talking round the problem instead of discussing ways of solving it.
❏ talk sb round (to sth) [PHRV ] နားသွင်းသည်။ နားချ သည်။ We finally managed to talk them round (to our way of thinking).
❏ talk shop [IDM ] (usu derog ) အလုပ်အကြောင်းပြောသည်။ I had lunch with Clive and Peter and they talked shop the whole time.
❏ talk show n (esp US ) = CHAT SHOW
❏ talk through one's hat [IDM ] ပေါက်ကရပြောသည်။ အရည်မရအဖတ်မရပြောသည်။
❏ talk turkey [IDM ] (infml esp US ) ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်း တဲ့တိုးပြောသည်။
❏ talk sb/sth up [PHRV ] (US ) စန်းတင်သည်။ ဗန်းတင် သည်။ talk up the tourist attractions to encourage more visitors.
❏ talk one's way out of sth/doing sth [IDM ] လိမ္မာပါးနပ် စွာ လှည့်ပတ်ပြောပြီး ရုန်းထွက်သည်။ I'd like to see him talk his way out of this one (ie this trouble he has got into).
❏ you can/can't talk [IDM ] (infml ) = LOOK WHO'S TALKING
❏ you're a fine one to talk [IDM ] (infml ) = LOOK WHO'S TALKING