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talk down to

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talk down to someone

to speak to someone as if they were too young or stupid to understand something. I think of old people just as I think of myself, so I don't talk down to them.

See also: down, talk

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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context More results

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