talk turkey
To talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.
An Erie car loaded with live turkeys . . . was delivered to the New-York and New-England Railroad yesterday. . . . This first cargo is symbolical of the fact that they will be able
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The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.
The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
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A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
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Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).