fast talk

Related to fast talk: Straight Talk

fast talk

1. noun Speech that is fervent, persuasive, glib, and (usually) manipulative or deceptive in intention. These door-to-door salesmen are adept at fast talk, trying to convince you to buy something before you can consider the purchase properly. The CEO always had a lot of fast talk lined up if anyone challenged the ethics of the company's business transactions.
2. verb To speak in a fervent, facile, and (usually) manipulatively or deceptively persuasive manner. In this usage, it is usually hyphenated. Be careful when you speak to the police—their detectives could fast-talk you into believing you'd killed your own mother.
See also: fast, talk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • full of life
  • on the knocker
  • last thing
  • foot-in-the-door
  • be on the door
  • door to door
  • door-to-door
  • from door to door
  • answer the door
  • slam the door shut
References in periodicals archive
Unlike any other product on the market, the "Fast Talk" tool allows an animator to quickly and simply generate amazingly accurate lip sync for Flash Character Animation.
"Fast Talk" allows the animator to simply control the process for seamless synchronization of Flash character lip movements with recorded voice, and with the speed and accuracy unlike any other lip sync tool on the market.
Double Barrel Digital now offers "Fast Talk" to any and all who wish to save time, money and headaches on their Flash character animation.
Double Barrel Digital Announces the Release of "Fast Talk"
That the women can scarcely keep up with his wild discursive flights is finally beside the point; after all, what's the point of all that fast talk when Johnny himself can't listen?
Johnny in the city: Mike Leigh's 'Naked.'
Asked during the fast talk segment of the presidential debate if former president and now detained Pampanga Rep.
Poe OKs house arrest for Arroyo, but not hero's burial for Marcos
FAST TALK: Sir Stirling Moss with racing drivers Antonio Pizzonia and Mark Webber.
Racing legend at fund-raiser
Fast Talk, Full Volume: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry.
When Fast Talk, Full Volume first arrived in the mail and I perused it, I thought, we have already fought this fight: Here were the old angers still seething and smoldering from the sixties.
One's first impression when reading through the pages of Fast Talk, Full Volume is that of a rerun, a sports replay alerting you to a moment you chose to miss, or forget.
Fast Talk, Full Volume: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry