Talk & communication
258 idioms live on this lane.
Idioms about talk & communication
- all holiday
- all kidding aside
- apothecary's Latin
- are you deaf
- are your ears burning
- ask around
- at a loss for words
- Attic salt
- backhanded compliment
- bad joke
- barrel of laughs
- bed in
- bite me
- blanket term
- blot on the escutcheon
- bog off
- the box they're going to bury it in
- breathe a word
- brush off
- bug off
- bull session
- bundle of laughs
- burning question
- bush telegraph
- but seriously folks
- butter face
- by a landslide
- call out
- call someone everything but a child of God
- call someone's number
- call up
- carry water for
- cast in concrete
- clear one's lines
- coffee talk
- couldn't stop a pig in a passage
- crack up
- cut one loose
- dirty word
- do the talking
- does the Pope shit in the woods
- double Dutch
- dough-faced
- draw a blank
- drop a bomb
- drop a hint
- drop someone a line
- drop the topic
- eat dirt
- enough to make a cat laugh
- extract the urine
- face that would stop a clock
- find one's tongue
- for grins
- for shits and giggles
- four-eyes
- funny stuff
- gallows humor
- German goiter
- get down to brass tacks
- get the word out
- get to the fireworks factory
- get to the point
- get wind in one's jaws
- gift of the gab
- ginger knob
- give someone a ring
- give someone a shout
- give someone an earful
- give someone the boot
- give someone the heave-ho
- give someone their cards
- go along with the gag
- go climb a tree
- go fly a kite
- go soak your head
- go under
- grammar Nazi
- grammar police
- grey matter
- hack it
- half joke
- hammer-headed
- hand someone his hat
- have a laugh
- have a word
- have the last laugh
- hear the end of it
- hear through the grapevine
- hold court
- hold the floor
- hold the line
- hold the phone
- Humpty Dumptyism
- hunker down
- I'm not being funny
- in Dutch
- in jest
- in stitches
- in the post
- in touch
- inside joke
- it's all Greek to me
- jack of all trades
- jaw away
- Jedi mind trick
- jog on
- the joke is on someone
- jot and tittle
- jungle telegraph
- keep a civil tongue in one's head
- keep quiet
- keep someone in the loop
- keep someone posted
- kick someone's ass
- knee slapper
- knock a dog off a gut wagon
- knuckle dragger
- last word
- laugh a minute
- laugh out of court
- lay it on thick
- leather-lunged
- left-handed compliment
- let someone down gently
- let something slip
- level with
- lie ill in one's mouth
- like talking to a wall
- loaded language
- loaded word
- locker room humor
- lose touch
- lost in translation
- make a point
- make oneself clear
- man of few words
- meeting of the minds
- melon head
- memory-hole
- mince words
- mouth breather
- never mind
- nose-picker
- off-color
- offer affordances
- over and out
- pardon my French
- pee in someone's cornflakes
- pee one's pants
- pen picture
- pencil-neck
- pencil-necked
- phone in
- phone tag
- pidgin
- piss in someone's cornflakes
- piss off
- piss one's pants
- play it straight
- point out
- poison-pen letter
- politically correct
- preach to deaf ears
- pull punches
- pull someone's leg
- pull the other leg
- pumpkin head
- put one's cards on the table
- put one's foot in one's mouth
- put oneself across
- put out feelers
- put words in someone's mouth
- read lips
- read someone to filth
- read someone's lips
- reality distortion field
- ring someone's bell
- roger that
- roll in the aisles
- rub salt in someone's wounds
- rubber chicken
- rumor campaign
- rumor mill
- say that
- say the quiet part loud
- screw off
- screw you
- see you next Tuesday
- send away
- send someone packing
- send word
- set of pipes
- shit in someone's Cheerios
- shoot from the lip
- shoot off at the mouth
- shoot the messenger
- sign of the times
- silent treatment
- silly season
- silver-tongued
- sing from the same hymnbook
- slip of the tongue
- slop out
- slow on the uptake
- slut's wool
- small talk
- smoke signal
- sod off
- soft Mick
- speak for
- speak someone's language
- spill juice
- spread the word
- staircase wit
- sticks and stones
- stink a skunk off a gut wagon
- stop dead
- straight from the shoulder
- strangle the parrot
- strike the tent
- suck the mop
- sweep aside
- take a joke
- take a long walk on a short pier
- take the pee
- talk about
- talk dirty
- talk over someone's head
- talk to
- talk to a brick wall
- telephone tag
- tell someone where to shove it
- ten-cent word
- ten-dollar word
- that's what she said
- thigh-slapper
- the thing is
- thought bubble
- tickle someone's funny bone
- tip the wink
- tomayto, tomahto
- tongue-in-cheek
- touch base
- turn a deaf ear
- turn a phrase
- turn of phrase
- useless as tits on a boar hog
- wall of silence
- war of words
- watch one's mouth
- whisper campaign
- wicked tongue
- wine tosser
- woman of few words
- word of mouth
- words fail someone
- work the crowd