Debate Phrases

Phrases

• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• Ain't no reason to go anyplace else (Wendy's advertising slogan)
• All talk
• All talk and no trousers
• Argue the toss
• Bow to reason
• Careless talk costs lives (WWII slogan)
• Chalk and talk
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Fighting talk
• Fuel the controversy
• Good talk saves the food
• Have words with
• Heart to heart talk
• Hold the floor
• I don't wanna talk (ABBA lyric)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• Idle talk
• 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 stands to reason
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Jive talk
• Let's Talk About Love (Celine Dion album)
• Listen to reason
• Loose talk
• Money doesn't talk, it swears
• Never go to bed on an argument
• No earthly reason
• Pillow talk
• Pros and cons
• Rabbit and pork (Cockney rhyming slang for talk)
• Rhyme nor reason
• Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy (Political slogan)
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Smooth talk
• 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
• The Age Of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre book)
• The Age of Reason
• 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)
• There he goes again (Political slogan)
• Thrash out
• To save and invest, talk to Natwest (Natwest Bank advertising slogan)
• Trash talk
• Voice of reason
• Walk the talk
• Walk the walk, talk the talk
• War of words
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• We have ways of making you talk
• Win over
• Within reason
• Without a leg to stand on