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talk at
verb
- intr, preposition to speak to (a person) in a way that indicates a response is not really wanted
I wish he'd talk to me rather than at me
Idioms and Phrases
Speak to someone without regard for or interest in his or her reaction or response. For example, She had a way of talking at us that was quite unpleasant . [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
In November 2022, just nine months after Moscow’s armies invaded Ukraine, Mark Milley, then the U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a talk at the Economic Club of New York.
The PM "can walk and talk at the same" time, one ally says.
Manfred didn’t fault the Dodgers’ spending the last two offseasons — when they added Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell on nine-figure contracts — but he did talk at length about the concerns he says he’s heard from fans and owners about the payroll disparities that have emerged as a result.
Since Rabhan wrote that Roan should “do something about it — rather than just talk at it,” Roan made the donation and challenged Rabhan to do the same.
Rabhan, former chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, went on to say that Roan had a naive understanding of the record industry’s workings — “There is no moral or ethical obligation by any standard that hold labels responsible for the allocation of additional funds beyond advances and royalties,” he wrote — before urging her to “do something about it — rather than just talk at it.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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