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intention to solve it; to come to the essential point If the two sides in the dispute are to meet, they must be prepared to talk turkey. ORIGIN: This comes from the story of a Red Indian and a white man sharing the spoils after a day’s hunting: three crows and two wild turkeys. The white man cunningly allotted himself two birds, the turkeys, and offered the Red Indian three birds, the crows. The resentful Indian advised the other to stop talking about the number of birds and to talk turkey instead. tall, dark and handsome высокий, красивый (стереотип мужской красоты) M E A N I N G : the description of a romantic hero’s attributes (likely to be found especially in women’s fiction); the ideal man, perhaps not always so in reality but the common use of this phrase suggests that this description is a stereotyped fantasy 129