talk round
phrasal verbtalk around something
(British English also talk round something)
- to talk about something in a general way without dealing with the most important parts of it
- We spent a whole hour talking around the problem before looking at ways of solving it.
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talk somebody round (to something)
- (British English) to persuade somebody to accept something or agree to something
- We finally managed to talk them round to our way of thinking.