Meaning of happy talk | Babel Free

Definitions

Lighthearted, pleasant conversation; upbeat banter; optimistic remarks.

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Examples

“Dr. Sandwith soon afterwards ran out to the excited chattering group in the garden, and after a few minutes' happy talk with him, Harry spoke to him of the visitors.”

“"Maybe the public is waking up and getting skeptical about simple public relations, effortless, happy-talk rhetoric," he said.”

“Clinton's upbeat tone marked his passage from econo-pessimist to cheerleader. Some observers give new mediameister David R. Gergen, who learned happy talk at the knee of Ronald Reagan, credit for the shift.”

“"Now have there been missteps? Of course." Among them, he admits, Dick Cheney's happy talk about the insurgency in Iraq being in its "last throes."”

“Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted that the spill was an "environmental catastrophe."”

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