Very nice idiom an expression of this part not to be on speaking terms 167. So these two actually persons or not, I guess on the speaking term. So, what does mean? If you are not speaking terms with someone, it means you refuse to speak to them because you are angry with them. So, when you want when you don't want to speak to somebody you can say that on I'm not going to speaking term with him or her. Let me give you some examples.

They had an argument last night And now they're on speaking terms. We can say with each other, or we can remove this part. Other examples, I'm not on speaking terms with Mary. We had a serious disagreement. That's good. The two nations have not been on speaking terms for a couple of decades, okay.

So they are refusing to speak