converse with

converse with (someone or something)

To talk to someone or something. I can't give you an answer until I converse with Carol about this issue—is she in the office today? I wouldn't cross a woman who converses with the spirits—who knows what kinds of punishments she can call down on us!
See also: converse
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

converse with someone (about someone or something)

 and converse (with someone) about someone or something
to talk about someone or something. Please converse with Ted about that. I need to converse about last night with you. The principal needs to converse with you.
See also: converse
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • converse with (someone or something)
  • converse
  • converse about (someone or something)
  • converse with (someone or something) about (someone or something)
  • converse about (someone or something) with (someone or something)
  • speak about
  • speak about (someone or something)
  • talk to
  • talk to (one)
  • try to catch you some other time
References in classic literature
Again he tried to converse with his strange nurse, but the attempt was useless.
If you know the strange white man who saved our lives so many times, and brought us food, and if you can converse with him, thank him, also, for his kindness.
The first hour that I began to converse with him after he had agreed to go with me to the East Indies, I found reason to delight exceedingly in his conversation; and he first began with me about religion in the most obliging manner imaginable.
He replied that he thought all our conversation might be easily separated from disputes; that it was not his business to cap principles with every man he conversed with; and that he rather desired me to converse with him as a gentleman than as a religionist; and that, if I would give him leave at any time to discourse upon religious subjects, he would readily comply with it, and that he did not doubt but I would allow him also to defend his own opinions as well as he could; but that without my leave he would not break in upon me with any such thing.
She is very pretty, and always wears a black dress, with the most beautiful fit; she speaks a little English; she tells me she had to learn it in order to converse with the Americans who come in such numbers to this hotel.
I suggested telepathy, but he said no, that it was not telepathy since they could only communicate when in each others' presence, nor could they talk with the Sagoths or the other inhabitants of Pellucidar by the same method they used to converse with one another.
I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them.
I did not hold the sort of fancied converse with him that I held with ether authors, and I cannot pretend that I had the affection for him that attracted me to them.
When I came to meet her, over a glass of the mild egg-nog which she served at her house on Sunday nights, and she told me about Heine, and how he looked, and some few things he said, I suffered an indescribable disappointment; and if I could have been frank with myself I should have owned to a fear that it might have been something like that, if I had myself met the poet in the flesh, and tried to hold the intimate converse with him that I held in the spirit.
He is highly esteemed by all the family at the park, and I never see him myself without taking pains to converse with him."
"I think learning Hindi is a right step and I know this is a tribal state with our own language through which we cannot converse with the outside world.
Being able to converse with your players in their mother tongue has to be useful.
BBVA), which had appointed a team that developed Siri, the iPhone assistant, to build a solution to converse with bank customers, could soon implement the solution.
I agree with him that Welsh speaking patients, particularly elderly patients would be happy if visiting doctors converse with them in their mother tongue.
Tempe, who is part native American, solves the mystery by relying on traditional Indian methods to converse with the dead woman to learn what really happened.