talk up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)To talkabout(something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it.The restaurant had beentalked upway too much, that it left me somewhat disappointed.Charlie's beentalking upRobbie in an attempt to set him up with Lucy.2022September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, inRAIL, number966, page45:Moreover, the new Prime Minister has alreadytalked upthe need for new strike-breaking legislation, in the form of requirements for railworkers to provide a minimum service during any industrial action.; (idiomatic,intransitive)Totalklouder.; (intransitive)To speak in a plain and candid way, or withboldimpudence.1851November 14,Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”And it’s said very well, and I like to hear a chaptalk upthat way; you are just the man for him—the likes of ye.

Examples:

EN: Besides you don't talk up 64 bucks every day by just getting in the dumps.
ES: Además, no se consiguen 64 pavos todos los días deprimiéndose.
EN: That poor thing with a flat chest that didn't have nerve enough... to talk up to you, washing your greasy overalls, cooking... and slaving in some lousy mining shack?
ES: ¿Esa pobre criatura de pecho liso que no tenía el valor... de contestarte, lavando tus sucios monos, cocinando... y esclavizada en una choza minera?
EN: I can talk up here like this.
ES: Bueno...
EN: So you remember, talk up good and loud.
ES: Así que procura hablar alto y claro.
EN: I hear Her Majesty's the only woman he could talk up to... without his knees buckling.
ES: Su Majestad es la única mujer con quien puede hablar... sin doblar las rodillas.
EN: Judas Priest, I don't see how you can talk up for scum like that.
ES: ¡Por Judas! No sé cómo defiendes a esa gentuza.
EN: I want you to talk up the party and to make sure that the best folks really come.
ES: Quiero que hable con toda esa gente y... se asegure de que vengan todos a la fiesta.
EN: The way you talk up for these superstitious mountain people, you'd think that every third 'shiner is your nephew.
ES: tal y como hablas de esta gente supersticiosa de Ia montaña, dirían que es alguien de tu familia.
EN: But you didn't talk up.
ES: Pero no hablaste.
EN: I, uh, I thought we could talk up little better here than at the office, Mr. Buckley, in more quiet, you know?
ES: Creía que podríamos hablar mejor aquí que en el despacho, Sr. Buckley, y con más tranquilidad, ya sabe.
EN: Will you talk up, please?
ES: ¿Puede hablar aquí?
EN: Next time I talk up to you, just bust me over the head.
ES: La próxima vez que lo haga deme un golpe en la cabeza.
EN: So when we get downtown, talk up.
ES: Cuando vayamos a la ciudad lo cuentas.
EN: Well, come on, talk up!
ES: ¡Vamos, hablen!
EN: Okay, anybody wants out, now's the time to talk up.
ES: Muy bien, si alguien quiere salirse, ahora es el momento.

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