Talk Turkey (Verb)
Meaning
Discuss frankly, often in a business context.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- Let's stop beating around the bush and talk turkey about the budget we need to cut costs.
- It's time to talk turkey with the supplier and renegotiate the contract to get a better deal.
- We need to talk turkey with the investors to secure more funding for our startup.
- Management will finally talk turkey with the employees about the company's financial struggles.
- When the merger was proposed, the CEOs decided to talk turkey about how to integrate the two teams smoothly.