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• Acid tongue
• Actions speak louder than words
• All gas and gaiters
• All talk
• All talk and no trousers
• Anecdotal evidence
• Bang on about ( meaning and origin of this phrase )
• Bat the breeze
• Bend your ear
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Bite your tongue
• Blah blah blah
• Burning Down The House ( Talking Heads song )
• Careless talk costs lives ( WWII slogan )
• Cat got your tongue? ( meaning and origin of this phrase )
• Chalk and talk
• Chat up
• Chattering classes
• Chew the cud ( meaning and origin of this phrase )
• Chew the fat
• Come and talk to the listening bank ( Midland Bank advertising slogan )

• Conversation piece
• Conversation stopper
• Dialogue of the deaf
• Diarrhoea of the jawbone
• Drone on
• Ear bashing
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Face time
• Fighting talk
• Full of bull ( talking hot air )
• Gas bag
• Get round the table
• Gift of the gab
• Give someone a good talking to
• Go on about
• Good talk saves the food
• Gossip monger
• Hash it over
• Have your ears chewed off
• Have your say
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• Heart to heart talk
• Hold forth
• Hold your tongue
• Hot air
• I don't wanna talk ( ABBA lyric )
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• Idle gossip
• Idle talk
• It came out in the conversation
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer quotation )
• It's good to talk ( British Telecom advertising slogan )
• Jive talk
• Jive talkin' ( Bee Gees song )
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Keep schtum
• Let's Talk About Love ( Celine Dion album )
• Look who's talking?
• Loose talk
• Lose your tongue
• Loud mouth
• Maiden speech
• Man to man
• Money doesn't talk, it swears
• Money talks
• Mother tongue
• Mouth off
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Nineteen to the dozen
• Not to speak of
• Now you're talking
• On everyone's lips
• On the tip of my tongue
• Once In A Liftime ( Talking Heads' song )
• Pillow talk
• Psycho Killer ( Talking Heads song )
• Rabbit and pork ( Cockney rhyming slang for talk )
• Rabbiting on
• Rattle on
• Road To Nowhere ( Talking Heads song )
• Roll off the tongue
• Round table talks
• Round the table
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• Sharp tongue
• Shoot straight ( to talk or deal honestly )
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shut your face
• Shut your trap
• Silver tongued ( eloquent or persuasive manner of speech )
• Sing out
• Slip of the tongue
• Smooth talk
• So to speak
• Speak as you find
• Speak for yourself
• Speak in tongues
• Speak of the devil
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Speak the same language
• Speak when you are spoken to
• Speak your mind
• Speak your piece
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• Spill your guts
• Stop pumping your gums
• Straight talking
• Surf report
• Take someone to one side
• Talk a blue streak
• Talk a good game
• Talk dirty
• Talk down to
• Talk in riddles
• Talk is cheap
• Talk it up
• Talk me through it
• Talk of the Devil
• Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
• Talk offline
• Talk out of school
• Talk out of your ass
• Talk over your head
• Talk shop
• Talk the hind legs off a donkey
• Talk the talk
• Talk through your hat
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Talk to me, baby
• Talk to the hand
• Talk turkey
• Talk tweed
• Talking Book ( Stevie Wonder album )
• Talking head
• Talking point
• Talking shop
• Talks about talks
• The King's Speech ( Colin Firth movie )
• The love that dare not speak its name
• The talk of the town
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll )
• Tittle tattle lost the battle ( WWII slogan )
• To save and invest, talk to Natwest ( Natwest Bank advertising slogan )
• Tongue and groove
• Tongue in cheek
• Tongue lashing
• Tongue tied
• Tongue twister
• Trash talk
• Under your breath
• Verbal diarrhoea
• Walk the talk
• Walk the walk, talk the talk
• We Need To Talk About Kevin ( Lionel Shriver book )
• We have ways of making you talk
• We report, you decide ( FOX News advertising slogan )
• What we have here is a failure to communicate ( line from Cool Hand Luke )
• When E F Hutton talks, people listen ( EF Hutton advertising slogan )
• Whistling Dixie
• White man speak with forked tongue
• Witter on
• Word in your ear
• Word in your shell-like ( meaning and origin of this phrase )
• Work the phone
• Yada yada yada
• You're My Heart, You're My Soul ( Modern Talking song )