talk out of doing

talk someone out of doing something

to convince someone not to do something. I tried to talk her out of going, but she insisted. Don't try to talk me out of quitting school. My mind is made up.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gaspare	-	Italian
Herschel	-	Yiddish
Alfreda	ahl-FRE-dah (Polish, German, Italian)	Polish, German, Italian, English
Nicoletta	-	Italian
'Avshalom	-	Biblical Hebrew
Feliciano	fe-lee-CHYAH-no (Italian), fe-lee-THYAH-no (Spanish), fe-lee-SYAH-no (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese