walk the talk

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Verb

walk the talk (third-person singular simple present walks the talk, present participle walking the talk, simple past and past participle walked the talk)

1. (idiomatic, US) To perform actions consistent with one's claims.

Related terms

• walk the walk
• talk the talk

Translations

to act in accordance with one's words

• Arabic: التزم بوعودك‎
• Armenian: խոսքն ու գործը մեկ անել (xoskʿn u gorcə mek anel)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 言出必行 (yán chū bì xíng), 說到做到／说到做到 (zh) (shuō dào zuò dào), 言行一致 (zh) (yánxíngyīzhì)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: de daad bij het woord voegen
• Finnish: pitää puheensa
• French: faut que les bottines suivent les babines (fr)
• German: seinen Worten Taten folgen lassen
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: fare seguire alle parole i fatti
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: not used in Polish
• Portuguese: prometer e cumprir
• Russian: подкрепля́ть слова́ де́лом impf (podkrepljátʹ slová délom), подкрепи́ть слова́ де́лом pf (podkrepítʹ slová délom)
• Spanish: pasar del dicho al hecho
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can