A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance.spielspiel /ʃpiːl, spiːl/ noun [countable, uncountable] informal 
A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance.
WORD ORIGINspiel
Origin:
1800-1900 German ‘play, game’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Cliff was still delivering his spiel upstairs.
- He goes off into a little spiel.
- If Klepner's gonna get his job he may as well do the spiel.
- The officer steadied himself by grasping the windshield, but didn't miss a beat in his spiel.
- The other fellow is parading further down the beach and I can hear him giving the spiel to other people.
- This would be a shame and later in this spiel I have put down some thoughts on the matter.
- When my turn comes I condense my spiel and show my three-by-five card.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance.
a quick speech that the speaker has used many times before, especially one that is intended to persuade people to buy something: A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance. A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance.