Verbal Checkmate

What is Verbal Checkmate?


1.

Getting someone to the point in an argumentto which they have no comebackor response.

She seemed to shut up after I got her in that verbal checkmate last night.

See argument, checkmate, talking, chess, comeback, reply, retort, winning


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