单词 | to talk sense |
释义 | > as lemmasto talk (also speak, write) sense e. to talk (also speak, write) sense and variants: to talk (also speak, write) what is wise, reasonable, or intelligible. ΚΠ 1606 J. Marston Wonder of Women iii. ii. sig. E2 The Libean speakes bold sense. 1685 in Mem. Verney Family from Restoration to Revol. (1899) IV. 344 Hot-headed people that can't speak sense, hate to heare it. 1717 T. Sherlock Considerations occasioned by Postscript Ld. Bp. of Bangor 43 What think you, my Lord? Does the old Patriarch talk Sense? 1746 W. Dunkin tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. ii. 235 I..would rather fairly pass.., Than write good Sense, and smart severely for't. 1829 W. Scott Tales of Grandfather 2nd Ser. I. 57 The King, losing patience, commanded one of these zealots either to speak sense or come down from the pulpit. 1885 S. A. Brooke Let. 8 May in Life & Lett. (1917) II. xviii. 378 I talked sense, and was grimly resolved to give the exact opposite of ——'s wish-wash. 1921 W. W. Baillie Days & Nights of Shikar ii. 27 Write sense or not at all. 1972 ‘P. Ruell’ Red Christmas xiv. 148 You talk sense. Just remember, it's guns that count. 2004 W. B. McCloskey Raiders i. vi. 78 By now everybody's too shitfaced to talk sense. < as lemmas |
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