ADJ
- good, little (often ironic), long, quiet, serious
- I will have to have a little talk with that young lady (= tell her that I disapprove of sth)
- heart-to-heart, intimate
PREP
- ~ about
- I enjoyed our talk about the old days
- ~ with
- I need to have a heart-to-heart talk with her
PHRASES
- (to exchange/make) small talk (= to talk politely about unimportant things)
- He was never very good at making small talk with her parents
ADJ
- excited, heady
- There was excited talk of emigrating to America
- ridiculous, wild
- There is ridiculous talk of her breaking the world record soon
- careless, dangerous, idle, loose
- fighting, tough
- straight
- She likes straight talk and hates hypocrites
- double
- The president's true agenda was hidden in political double talk
- dirty, filthy
- cheap, easy, empty, mere
- The chairman's boasts about future profits was just cheap talk
- fine, grand
- (ironic) What all the fine talk came down to was hard cash
- baby
- I never used baby talk to my little girl
- pillow
- the pillow talk of lovers
TALK + VERB
- turn to sth
- Talk turned to money and tempers began to fray
PREP
- ~ about/of
- All this talk of the president resigning is nonsense!
PHRASES
- be just talk
- ' You think it's just talk? ' ' No, I think it's true. '
- for all the talk of sth
- For all the talk of bringing their children up the same, the boys ended up never doing any of the cooking
ADJ
- lengthy
- high-level, top-level
- informal
- formal, official
- private, secret
- open
- direct, face-to-face
- wide-ranging
- all-party, bilateral, inter-party, joint, multilateral, round-table, trilateral, tripartite
- fresh, further
- fruitless, inconclusive
- crisis, emergency, urgent
- exploratory, preliminary
- constitutional, political
- arms, pay, peace, trade
QUANT
- round
- A further round of talks is expected in March
VERB + TALK
- conduct, have, hold
- The two governments held secret talks on the nuclear threat
- broker, host
- attend, enter
- initiate, open
- break off, pull out of, walk out of
- The union has broken off talks with the management
- cancel, suspend
- reopen, resume
TALK + VERB
- be scheduled
- Talks were scheduled for Rome the following month
- take place
- The peace talks will take place in Cairo
- begin, open, start
- end
- resume
- be aimed at sth, be designed to
- the latest round of talks aimed at ending the civil war
- centre on sth, concentrate on sth, cover sth, deal with sth, focus on sth
- The talks centred on bilateral trade
- produce sth
- Talks produced agreement on an end to the occupation
- be deadlocked, break down, collapse, fail, founder, stall
- The talks remain deadlocked over spending plans. The talks foundered on the issue of compensation
PREP
- during ~
- The agreement was concluded during talks in Beijing
- in ~
- He is currently in talks with two football clubs
- ~ about/on/over
- holding talks over the political future of the province
- ~ between
- the failure of talks between the two communities
- ~ with
- The delegation arrived for talks with their government
ADJ
- entertaining, informative, interesting
- introductory
- pep, sales, team
- radio
TALK + VERB
- be entitled sth
- She gave a very entertaining talk entitled 'My life and hard times'
PREP
- ~ about/on
- Did you go to the talk on Peru?