# talk turkey

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/talk-turkey
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.

## 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.

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