talk into

talk into (third-person singular simple present talks into, present participle talking into, simple past and past participle talked into)

1. (transitive) To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.

   Antonym: talk out of

   At the beginning, I wasn't keen on working the weekend shift, but my boss talked me into it.

   She talked him into making the investment.

   • 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

     It’s still hard to accept that an abstract geographic rivalry resulted in the murders of the genre’s two biggest stars, but that was what happened. They’d talked themselves into it.