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be on speaking terms

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not be on speaking terms
to be refusing to talk to someone because you have had an argument and are still angry with them. She's not on speaking terms with her ex-husband. (often + with) Jeanette and her mother haven't been on speaking terms since the wedding.
See also: speaking, term

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Thorpe, most happy to be on speaking terms with a man of General Tilney's importance, had been joyfully and proudly communicative; and being at that time not only in daily expectation of Morland's engaging Isabella, but likewise pretty well resolved upon marrying Catherine himself, his vanity induced him to represent the family as yet more wealthy than his vanity and avarice had made him believe them.
 
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