talk into

verb

talk into

verb

1

To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.

At the beginning, I wasn't keen on working the weekend shift, but my boss talked me into it.
She talked him into making the investment.

1 more example

It’s still hard to accept that an abstract geographic rivalry resulted in the murders of the genre’s two biggest stars, but that was what happened. They’d talked themselves into it.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

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