pillow talk

Related to pillow talk: Doris Day

pillow talk

Intimate conversations between two people in a romantic relationship when they are in bed together. More than anything else, it's the pillow talk that I miss most since we had kids—we just don't have the time for it anymore, and it feels like we've become a bit distant as a result.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ˈpillow talk

(informal) a conversation in bed between lovers when promises are made which should not be taken too seriously, or secrets are revealed: ‘He said he’d never been so deeply in love in the whole of his life.’ ‘That was just pillow talk.’ ‘How did he find out about that?’ ‘Pillow talk, probably.’
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

pillow talk

Exchanging information, often of a privileged nature, in bed. Dating from the first half of the 1900s, the term was the title of a romantic comedy motion picture (1959) starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. A New York Times article had it, “Mrs. Ford makes it plain she gets her views across to Mr.[President] Ford in what she calls ‘pillow talk’” (Aug. 4, 1975).
See also: pillow, talk
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • emotional affair
  • have intimate relations with
  • have intimate relations with (one)
  • intimate to
  • intimate to (someone)
  • close as the bark to the tree
  • (as) thick as thieves
  • thick as thieves
  • thief
  • get (one) where (one) lives
References in periodicals archive
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To understand the methodological challenges of studying communication after sexual activity, it is first necessary to provide a brief background on pillow talk and the research that serves as a basis for this analysis.
Mr Faulk described the al-Yawer calls as "courting, wooing and pillow talk".
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By way of example, Schamus mentions that one of his favorite films is Pillow Talk, the fizzy 1959 romantic comedy starring Doris Day and the very closeted Rock Hudson.
But don't think ballet business will ever turn into pillow talk. "We're grateful for having a profession we feel passionate about," Lopez declares.
Additionally, in April's "Tilting At Windmills" column, Charles Peters incorrectly cited Susan Antilla's Tales From the Boom-Boom Room as the source for the quote "I got some of my best information through pillow talk," attributed to broker Nikki Haskell.
Cahiers du cinema was thrilled by the sound track's possibilities: "Every cultivated person will feel compelled to have these CD-books as a portable audio memory, an accompaniment to every moment of their private life." Imagine jogging to Greek choruses of old movie dialogue, dining to ambient snatches of Hindemith, Nico, Bernard Herrmann, and Godard's click-clacking typewriter, dancing with yourself as JLG whispers pillow talk like "histoire de la solitude/solitude de l'histoire" in his best Pepe-le-Pew-does-Leonard-Cohen voice.
Snuggle close for some pillow talk. I don't know about you, but I've never been too keen on sleeping with a pistol under my pillow.
In the nail care arena Del has introduced PILLOW TALK, a line of nine new shades of its SALLY HANSEN TEFLON TUFF nail color; PRIMA PRIMA BALLERINA, nine shades of SALLY HANSEN HARD AS NAILS; TECHNO CHIC, a collection of reflective frost enamels; and FUN FAVOR BUCKETS, merchandising buckets of files, nail boards and nail brushes that are designed for impulse appeal and fast inventory turns.
And in other cases, CEOs simply may placate spouses who want to "befriend Earth and defend children." So much boils down to pillow talk. What is to be done about all this?
From Calamity Jane to Pillow Talk and the Pajama Game, Day's roles often followed a pattern usually scatter-brain, funny, fast-talking, quicker-thinking women with a whirling energy which captivated her co-stars and audiences alike.
Gigi Hadid took to Instagram and posted a picture of the 'Pillow talk' singer and his sister Waliyha Malik.
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In an interview with (http://www.eonline.com/news/794269/gigi-hadid-reveals-what-turns-her-on-the-most-about-boyfriend-zayn-malik) ES magazine, Gigi shared what she likes most about the "Pillow Talk" singer.