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Talk turkey   /tɔk tˈərki/   Listen
Talk turkey

verb
1.
Discuss frankly, often in a business context.





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"Talk turkey" Quotes from Famous Books



... of yore damned explanations," interrupted Wadley roughly. "Talk turkey. Will you or won't you? Me, I ain't plumb crazy about law. It's justice I want done. I'll be doggoned if I'm goin' to stand by an' let any harm come to Dinsmore—not this here year of ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... hard. Then she said: "No! Not yet! You'd only scare him away. I'll do my best to get him interested in me, and you do your best to get him interested in the business; and then when the time is just right we can talk turkey. But not ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... see what I have to show you, and then we'll talk turkey," the other man said goodnaturedly. Anne, sitting on her mother's lap beside him, gave him a sudden smile ...
— Undertow • Kathleen Norris


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