talk about
verb- Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something. · Talk about a loose cannon! Did you hear his TV speech?
- Used to draw attention to the speaker's approval or affirmation of someone or something. · - I'm gonna wine you and dine you and give you everything you need. - Yes! Now that's what I'm talking about!
- To say; used before a direct quote or paraphrase.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, about.
From the library
“Now,” said Valentine, motioning to Morrel to sit down near her grandfather, while she took her seat on his footstool,—“now let us talk about our own affairs.
Come on, Bob; we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times.”
“Upon my word,” cried Albert, “you must have been a very entertaining companion alone, or all but alone, with a beautiful woman in such a place of sentiment as the Colosseum, and yet to find nothing better to talk about than the dead!
She was glad to meet me, but when she did it was not love that she would talk about, and she wouldn’t have let me talk about it either if she could have stopped it.
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