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"text": "“I am sure,” said Abel to Caliban, looking at the hearth-stone of the chimney with lively curiosity, “that there is below there, the entrance to a subterranean palace, like the garden in which Aladdin took his lamp, with a pavement of sapphire, pillars of diamond, golden fruits, the seeds of the pomegranate, rubies, and where a little fairy with a wand, is seated on a throne of mother-of-pearl; she is beautiful as a spring morning; she has a chariot drawn by pigeons, and she will take me to see my father and mother.” “Ah, Abel!” replied Caliban, “thou talkest like a book!”",
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"text": "“Then, who,” the sick man meekly said, / “Shall heal the sick and hide the dead?— / “Snatch the despairer’s poisoned cup; / Clothe shame, and give the outcast sup?— / “Lighten, if only by a hair, / The load of human pain and care?” / The hermit gave a kindly look; / “Faith, now thou talkest like a book. / “Here, come!” he seized a half-charred brand— / “Write on my wall there, something grand. / “I doubt if God used thee so much / To find and heal things with thy touch.”",
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"(simile, informal) To talk precisely and with authority."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌtɔːk laɪk‿ə ˈbʊk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌtɔk laɪk‿ə ˈbʊk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tɑk-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊk"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-talk like a book.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ae/En-au-talk_like_a_book.ogg/En-au-talk_like_a_book.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/En-au-talk_like_a_book.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words",
"word": "puhua kirjakieltä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words",
"word": "parler comme un livre"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "to talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words",
"word": "bi edebî axivîn"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "to talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words",
"word": "kitêbane peyivîn"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "mówić literacko"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to talk precisely and with authority",
"word": "parlar com un llibre"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to talk precisely and with authority",
"word": "puhua kirjakieltä"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to talk precisely and with authority",
"word": "falar coma un libro"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to talk precisely and with authority",
"word": "sprechen wie ein Buch"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to talk precisely and with authority",
"word": "parlare come un libro stampato"
}
],
"word": "talk like a book"
}
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