ginger talk
A speech, particularly one given to salespeople, aimed at inspiring and boosting…A speech, particularly one given to salespeople, aimed at inspiring and boosting confidence.
Meaning
1 senses(US, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A speech, particularly one given to salespeople, aimed at inspiring and boosting confidence.
Origin
From the idea of gingering a horse to make it seem more lively, or adding ginger to spiceFrom the idea of gingering a horse to make it seem more lively, or adding ginger to spice up a food or beverage; compare ginger group. Perhaps coined by Worthington C. Holman, author of Ginger Talks: The Talks of a Sales Manager to His Men (1905).
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Forms
plural: ginger talks| Singular | ginger talk |
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Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.