| laf |
- {N} talk, word, say, spiel, word: words, empty words
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| laf |
1. remark; word.
2. expression, utterance, statement.
3. empty words, hot air, nothing but talk.
4. conversation, talk.
5. the subject of a conversation.
6. What nonsense!/That´s bull!
__ı ağzında gevelemek to talk around the subject; not to come out with what´s on one´s mind.
__ı ağzından kaçırmak to let something slip, say something inadvertently, let the cat out of the bag.
__ı ağzında kalmak to be unable to finish what one was saying; (for someone) suddenly to go silent.
__ altında kalmamak to give as good as one gets (in an argument).
__ı ağzına tıkamak /ın/ to shut (someone) up.
__ anlamaz
1. thickheaded; stupid.
2. obstinate, muleheaded.
__ anlatmak /a/ to try to bring (someone) round (to one´s own point of view), try to make (someone) understand something.
__ aramızda .... colloq. This is just between you and me./Let´s keep this to ourselves./Entre nous.
__ atmak
1. /a/ to make a rude remark about (someone) within his hearing.
2. /a/ to make an improper innuendo or suggestion to (a woman one doesn´t know), proposition.
3. to have a chat.
__ını/
__ınızı balla kestim. colloq. Excuse me for interrupting you.
__ını bilmek to think before one opens one´s mouth, be careful about what one says.
__a boğmak /ı/ to drown (a topic) in a flood of words.
__ı çevirmek/değiştirmek to change the subject.
__ çıkmak for a rumor to start going around.
__ı çiğnemek to beat around the bush.
__a dalmak to become lost in conversation.
__ değil. colloq. It´s serious./This isn´t just idle talk.
__ dinlemek to heed what one is told; to act on someone´s advice.
__ dokundurmak /a/ to make wisecracks (about), make barbed remarks (about).
__ düşmemek /a/
1. for there to be no need for (someone) to talk.
2. (for someone) not to get a chance to speak.
__ etmek
1. /ı/ to gossip about (something).
2. /la/ to talk (with), chat (with).
__ını etmek /ın/ to talk about (something).
__ın gümrüğünü vermek slang to start yakking again; to keep on yakking.
__ işitmek to get a dressing down.
__ kaldıramamak not to be able to take a joke, not to be able to take it.
__ kıtlığında asmalar budayayım. colloq. You´re talking nonsense!
__ körüğü windbag (person).
__ lafı açar. colloq. One topic leads to another.
__ı mı olur? colloq. Don´t mention it!/It´s a pleasure! (said to someone for whom one has done or wishes to do a favor).
__ ola. colloq. What hogwash!/It´s just so much hot air!
__ olur. colloq. There´ll be gossip./It´ll set tongues wagging.
__ olsun diye (saying something) just to make conversation, merely for the sake of saying it.
__la peynir gemisi yürümez. proverb Mere talk won´t get anything done.
__ söyledi balkabağı. colloq. You´re full of bull!
__ını şaşırmak to be at a loss for words.
__ taşımak to retail gossip.
__a tutmak /ı/ to engage (someone) in conversation (thus causing him to stop what he´d been doing).
__ı uzatmak to take a long time explaining something.
__ ü güzaf see lafügüzaf.
__ yetiştirmek
1. to reply quickly and in kind, promptly to give as good as one gets.
2. /a/ (for a child) to talk back to, sass (an older person).
__ yok. /a/ colloq. There´s nothing wrong with .... |
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| laf |
* remark; word.
* expression, utterance, statement.
* empty words, hot air, nothing but talk.
* conversation, talk.
* the subject of a conversation.
* What nonsense!/That's bull! |
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