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Talking to   /tˈɔkɪŋ tu/   Listen
Talking to

noun
1.
A lengthy rebuke.  Synonyms: lecture, speech.  "The teacher gave him a talking to"






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"Talking to" Quotes from Famous Books



... come right back here when he gets the message I sent for him. I telegraphed to our wireless friend, Max Handy, and asked him to go down to the docks and tell father what happened since he left. He's on the way now; maybe he's talking to father this minute." ...
— The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands • J. W. Duffield

... a great teller of tales, and his first story of the evening happened to be about his brother Bill. They had a long chase after a bear and became separated. Bill was new at the game, and he was a peculiar fellow anyhow. Much given to talking to himself! Haught finally rode to the edge of a ridge and espied Bill under a pine in which the hounds had treed a bear. Bill did not hear Haught's approach, and on the moment he was stalking round the pine, swearing at the bear, which clung ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey

... here you are! And you've brought Bertie as you promised." She gave her other hand to Bertrand with the words, but she did not speak to him—she went on talking to her fiance. "I've had a tremendous day, and thank you a million times for—you know what. It's a good thing you booked your dances beforehand, for ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

... service the children kept glancing across at Farmer Landfried's wife, and when they came out they waited for her at the door; but the wealthy farmer's wife was surrounded by so many people, all eagerly talking to her, that she was obliged to keep turning in a circle to answer first one and then another. She had no opportunity to notice the wistful glances of the children and their continual nodding. Dame Landfried had Rosie, Farmer Rodel's youngest daughter, in her hand. Rosie was a year older ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... will understand me now," was a thought stronger than all obstacles. I used to repeat ecstatically, "I am not dumb now." I could not be despondent while I anticipated the delight of talking to my mother and reading her responses from her lips. It astonished me to find how much easier it is to talk than to spell with the fingers, and I discarded the manual alphabet as a medium of communication on my part; but Miss Sullivan and a few friends still ...
— Story of My Life • Helen Keller


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