talk him deaf

[Yichen]

Hello all,

I shan't say another word to your Pa about it. I want him to go to town to sign some deeds this afternoon, and I can't afford to rile him. Besides, it wouldn't do a particle of good if I was to talk him deaf, and you know it.
source: here

Does "talk somebody deaf" mean, "sell one's idea by means of talking and talking until the listener buys it" ?

Thank you.

 

[tunaafi]

It appears to mean that.

 

[Yichen]

Thank you again, tunaafi.

 

[velisarius]

The book was published in 1904, and I think I'm right in saying that the style of speech is "folksy".

I don't know whether it's current in AE.

 

[PaulQ]

Besides, it wouldn't do a particle of good if I was to talk him deaf

This the same type of sentence as
Besides, it wouldn't do a particle of good if I was to shoot him dead
Besides, it wouldn't do a particle of good if I was to shout myself hoarse.

Deaf, dead and hoarse are all adjectives and are described as "resultatives" - the adjective is the result of doing the action of the verb:

Besides, it wouldn't do a particle of good if I was to talk him and as a result he was deaf

 

[Yichen]

Thank you, PaulQ, for your grammar analysis!
And thank you all here, again.