walk the talk
to do what one says
TRANSLATION
walk the talk = den Worten Taten folgen lassen --- GOOGLE INDEX walk the talk: approximately 900,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"It really is not good enough for Britain to be sending a men-only team around the world talking about the empowerment of women in developing countries. The government must WALK THE TALK."
(BBC News)
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It's the CFO's responsibility to set the ethical tone at the top of the organization and to WALK THE TALK, showing employees by example how integrity needs to be part of everything they do and say on a daily basis.
(Business Finance Magazine)
(BBC News)
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It's the CFO's responsibility to set the ethical tone at the top of the organization and to WALK THE TALK, showing employees by example how integrity needs to be part of everything they do and say on a daily basis.
(Business Finance Magazine)
Did you
know?
walk the talk
idiom
- to match one's words with action
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The phrase "walk the talk" stems from the expression "if you're going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk." In other words, if you are going to talk about it, then do it. Similar phrases have surfaced over the years, such as "talk is cheap" and "actions speak louder than words."
Walk the talk belongs to a growing list of overused business expressions. Many people have grown weary of these so-called "buzzwords" or "management speak", which one often hears in meetings, conference calls and presentations. As an antidote, some unknown clever person created "bullshit bingo".
Before a presentation as an example, colleagues get together and fill out 5 X 5 bingo cards with words and phrases like "low-hanging fruit", "think outside the box", "win-win" and "synergy". When the presenter uses one of the hated phrases, the card holders mark them. Like in normal bingo, the goal is to be the first one to fill out a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. Standing up and shouting "bullshit!" at this point is not a good idea however.
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SYNONYMS
practice what you preach, put your money where your mouth is, if you can't do the time don't do the crime, talk is cheap
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We've been discussing this issue for two hours now. It's time to walk the talk!"
idiom
- to match one's words with action
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The phrase "walk the talk" stems from the expression "if you're going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk." In other words, if you are going to talk about it, then do it. Similar phrases have surfaced over the years, such as "talk is cheap" and "actions speak louder than words."
Walk the talk belongs to a growing list of overused business expressions. Many people have grown weary of these so-called "buzzwords" or "management speak", which one often hears in meetings, conference calls and presentations. As an antidote, some unknown clever person created "bullshit bingo".
Before a presentation as an example, colleagues get together and fill out 5 X 5 bingo cards with words and phrases like "low-hanging fruit", "think outside the box", "win-win" and "synergy". When the presenter uses one of the hated phrases, the card holders mark them. Like in normal bingo, the goal is to be the first one to fill out a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. Standing up and shouting "bullshit!" at this point is not a good idea however.
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SYNONYMS
practice what you preach, put your money where your mouth is, if you can't do the time don't do the crime, talk is cheap
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We've been discussing this issue for two hours now. It's time to walk the talk!"
