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• talk (someone) out of (doing something)
  убедить кого-либо не делать что-либо

  I tried to talk my husband out of buying a spots car, so far without any success.
• talk (someone) out of (something)
  отговорить кого-либо от чего-либо, разубедить

  I tried to talk my husband out of buying a spots car, so far without any success.
• talk (something) over
  обсудить что-либо, обговорить

  "I'd like to talk over the existing problem with you, if you don't mind."
• talk a blue streak
  говорить без умолку

  The women who sat behind me talked a blue streak, and I couldn't hear the film very well.
• talk back to (someone)
  возражать, дерзить кому-либо

  Bob is a naughty boy; he always talks back to his parents.
• talk big
  хвастаться

  When Erick visited us, he talked big about a lot of money he was going to get soon.
• talk down to (someone)
  выставлять себя в лучшем свете (перед кем-либо)

  Jane is the smartest student in her class, but she never talks down to her friends or classmates.
• talk in circles
  говорить одно и тоже, "толочь воду в ступе"

  "Stop talking in circles; tell me straight what you want me to do."
• talk of (somewhere)
  предмет разговора (где-либо)

  The recent arrest of the prominent banker has become the talk of the town.
• talk oneself out
  выговориться

  I saw that Ron was very upset and I let him talk himself out.
• talk out (a problem)
  обсудить (проблему) до конца

  I have decided to talk things out with Charles.
• talk shop
  говорить на профессиональные темы

  As they walked up the street together they began to talk shop.
• talk through one's hat
  вести глупые разговоры, "нести чушь"

  "You are talking through your hat! What's got into you, I wonder?"
• talk turkey
  серьёзно обсуждать что-либо

  It's necessary to talk turkey as far as her future plans are concerned.
• talk until one is blue in the face
  говорить до посинения

  I could have talked until I was blue in the face, but he wouldn't listen to reason.
• talk up (someone or something)
  расхваливать кого-либо \ что-либо

  My Mom always warms to anyone who talks up her food.
• tamper with (something)
  неумело пытаться сделать что-либо

  Someone has tampered with the seal of this letter.
• tan (someone's) hide
  наказать, нашлёпать кого-либо

  I told my brother that I would tan his hide if he used my computer again.
• taper off
  утихать, становиться меньше

  The storm didn't taper off for several days.
• tar and feather (someone)
  строго наказать кого-либо (вымазать дёгтем и обвалять в перьях)

  The owner of the cottage threatened that he would tar and feather anyone who broke into his house.
• tarred with the same brush
  люди одного склада, "одного поля ягода", "одним миром мазаны"

  These politicians are all tarred with the same brush; they promise much but do little.
• taste blood
  быть в состоянии причинить вред (своему врагу)

  Jimmy could taste blood when he discovered the weak points of the man whom he detested.
• taste of (something)
  почувствовать вкус чего-либо

  Adam got a taste of playing cricket while he was on holiday in Manchester.
• taste of things to come
  образец грядущих событий

  The rent increase was a taste of things to come with the new owner of our apartment house.
• tax-and-spend
  облагать налогом (что-либо приобретаемое в собственность)

  The tax-and-spend attitude is convenient for the government but many people do not like it.
• TB
  Tuberculosis - туберкулёз

  One of Andrew's patients got TB and was taken to hospital.
• TBA
  To Be Announced - подлежит объявлению (позднее)

  I looked at the Board to find out the time of the arrival of my train but it only said TBA.
• teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
  поучать старших, "учить учёного"

  Bill was trying to show the mechanic how to repair his car, and it was like teaching my grandmother to suck eggs.
• teach someone a lesson
  преподать кому-либо урок, проучить кого-либо

  The burns the child got from playing with matches taught him a lesson.
• teacher's pet
  любимчик (учителя)

  I never was my teacher's pet when I studies in high school.
• team player
  человек, умеющий работать в команде с другими людьми

  Ogden Nash turned out to be a good team player; he works well with all of the other members of the staff.
• team up with (someone)
  присоединяться к кому-либо

  Many children teamed up with us to play games in the playground.
• tear down (someone)
  говорить плохо о ком-либо, критиковать

  The speaker tore down one of the city authorities for his poor job performance.
• tear down (something)
  разрушать что-либо, сносить

  Across the river I saw the walls of old houses that were being torn down.
• tear into (someone or something)
  ругать, набрасываться на кого-либо \ что-либо

  The woman tore into her husband for having bought an expensive car.