However, we cannot fix our nation's finances without an honest, grown-up conversation about entitlement reform.

And you should not have been eavesdropping on grown-up conversations.

You're lucky if you can find IT people that can have a grown-up conversation about technology within an organisation with the decision makers.

It was the most grown-up conversation she had ever had with him.

It is quiet enough for a grown-up conversation and elegant enough to celebrate any occasion.

For those who consistently call for a "grown-up conversation" about race, there should be much to debate here.

He had a "grown-up" conversation with his boss, Harry Clarke, about why his role wasn't working out.

The big philosophical questions he asks may not be the stuff of everyday grown-up conversation, but they remain the unspoken basis of everything we do.

This was an altogether grown-up conversation, and she had already forgotten her fear and her anger.

I had taken it for granted that my leisure hours at Bookham would be passed in " grown-up conversation."