Idiom
talk turkey
Meaning
To talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Let's talk turkey and discuss the real price.”
“After weeks of polite emails, the two bosses finally met to talk turkey about the merger.”
“The diplomat abandoned diplomatic language and began to talk turkey, stating plainly what his country would accept and what it would not.”
Examples
simple
“Let's talk turkey and discuss the real price.”
contextual
“After weeks of polite emails, the two bosses finally met to talk turkey about the merger.”
complex
“The diplomat abandoned diplomatic language and began to talk turkey, stating plainly what his country would accept and what it would not.”
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