to persuade someone to lower the price of something
to speak to and calm someone who is upset or nervous, especially because they have taken an illegal drug
to talk about someone or something in a way that makes people think they are not as good as they really are
to talk loudly so that other people cannot hear what someone is saying
to use a radio to explain to someone who is flying a plane how to land it
He wanted five thousand dollars, but I talked him down to four.
I don’t like to hear people talking this country down.
She talked him down, telling jokes to ease the tension.
They go behind our backs, they withhold 0information, they talk down to us like idiots.
When the pilot died, a passenger was left to be talked down by a flying instructor.
talks down
talking down
talked down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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