speak to

Meaning

1. Editorial95% of films

   to talk to or communicate with someone, including asking to be put through to them

2. Oxford5% of films

   to talk to sb in a serious way about sth wrong they have done, to try to stop them doing it again

In the movies · 148

• I'd like to speak to him alone.Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
• ...then I fly home and speak to him.Zero Effect1998
• John, your mother would like to speak to you.Guess Who's Coming to Dinner1967
• Speak to him.Nightmare Alley2021
• Speak to me.Eastern Promises2007
• I speak to them.Ant-Man2015
• Speak to me.Twelfth Night2012
• Let me speak to them.The Bad Guys2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Twelfth Night2012
  • Orsino's Speech on Music and Love
  • Viola Disguises Herself as a Man
  • Sir Andrew Boasts About Dancing

From the same entry

• be on speaking terms
• generally, broadly, roughly, relatively, speaking
• no… to speak of
• so to speak
• speak for itself
• speak for myself
• speak for yourself
• speaking as
• speak your mind
• speak out of turn
• speak volumes
• speak well of