sweet-talk

sweet talk

1. noun Speech intended to flatter or cajole someone. You're wasting your breath—all the sweet talk in the world won't get me to change my mind. Our kids always tries to get round us with sweet talk when we're mad at them.
2. verb To speak in a way that is intended to flatter or cajole someone. Often hyphenated. I can't believe I let him sweet talk me into lending him my car for the weekend. Remember the reasons why you're quitting—don't let them sweet-talk you into staying!
See also: sweet, talk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sweet-talk someone

Rur. to talk convincingly to someone with much flattery. I didn't want to help her, but she sweet-talked me into it. He sweet-talked her for a while, and she finally agreed to go to the dance with him.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • sweet talk
  • fire and brimstone
  • bummer
  • birdturd
  • turd
  • angle
  • angling
  • beater
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • high, wide, and handsome
References in periodicals archive
To be frank, the reason you get all this attention, as you call it, is because they know they can sweet-talk you into having sex.
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The girls are trained to sweet-talk British Servicemen so they spill security secrets - and then lure them into ambushes.
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When asked how he'd managed to dissuade the woman from jumping, Brown spoke of "sweet-talk" but then added that he could not be sure she was planning to end her life.
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So get yourself checked out and in future you should be a little less trusting about strange gents who sweet-talk you into bed.
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Now the shining light of Welsh rugby has been tipped to sweet-talk his way into Gatland's plans for their opener in Scotland on February 8.
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Mel tries to sweet-talk Norris into handing over pounds 2000 to get his new novel published.
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A little sweet-talk can set the stage for a bedtime reunion so call each other up in anticipation.
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Chat show smoothie Des O'Connor is trying to sweet-talk US President Bill Clinton into appearing on his new series.
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First, you'll need to sweet-talk a farmer in Berwick-upon-Tweed whose piggies have the tastiest legs in Britain, access to a chromatograph for smelling flavours (the University Of Reading has one), one pair of goggles (essential when you're beating a block of dry-ice with a rolling pin) and about a week off work to prepare the meal.
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Thus he toyed with switching smoothie Alan Johnson, No.10's saviour on higher university fees, from Trade to Education, to sweet-talk party rebels.
A LESSON FOR RUTH
Lib-Dem leader Paddy Ashdown's wife Jane helped him sweet-talk the party "not-so-faithful' yesterday.
PADDY'S ON SONG
And his fears could be confirmed as Hutchwright tries to sweet-talk Norris into handing over pounds 2,000 to get his next book published.
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A Facebook acquaintance sweet-talked a gullible Malaysian housewife into parting with RM151,800 after she had put the money into a number of accounts as requested by the man.
Housewife duped of RM151,800 by Facebook 'friend'
constantly sweet-talked the wife and told her to enjoy her life because her husband's stay behind bars would last long due to the number of cases lodged against him.
Legal adviser jailed for molesting lonely wife
His old friend Jason sweet-talks him into a potentially lucrative contract in the remote Southeast Asian nation of Quanlom.
The Divine