talk back
— phrasal verb with talk uk/tɔːk/us/tɑːk/verb [ I ]
If a child talks back, he or she replies rudely to someone:
Children who talk back are regarded as disrespectful.
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Denying & contradicting
- abnegate
- answer
- answer (sb) back
- contradiction
- debunk
- defensive
- denial
- deny
- disagree
- Dutchman
- fly
- hell
- I'm a Dutchman idiom
- nonsense
- oxymoron
- rebut
- stand
- stand sth on its head idiom
- talk
- the hell sb is/does, etc. idiom
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