talk a big game
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[edit]Verb
[edit]talk a big game (third-person singular simple present talks a big game, present participle talking a big game, simple past and past participle talked a big game)
- Alternative form of talk a good game
- 2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- That’s one way to understand Apple’s empty message about privacy. Tim Cook talks a big game, but at the end of the day, his company is allowing the surveillance-capitalism atrocities it claims to oppose.
- 2019, 100 gecs (lyrics and music), “money machine”, in 1000 gecs:
- You think you're so fucking cool? Huh? / You think you're so fucking tough? / You talk a lotta big game for someone with such a small truck