Who said talk the talk walk the walk

Don't have an account? Sign in via your Institution. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Related Content 'walk the talk' can also refer to Show Summary Details Overview walk the talk. All rights reserved. Sign in to annotate. Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

Benjamin Franklin is reputed to have coined the proverbial saying "Well done is better than well said". I've resorted to the weasly 'reputed to' there, as, although it is certainly in his style, there appears to be no hard evidence to link Franklin to this phrase. More recently, and especially in the UK, where 'walk the walk' has never caught on, the phrase is sometimes condensed to 'walk the talk'.

This appears to have derived in the UK as a simple mishearing of the American original. Blog Outsets and onsets! Read More. November 08, To top. Sign up for free and get access to exclusive content:. Free word lists and quizzes from Cambridge. Tools to create your own word lists and quizzes. Word lists shared by our community of dictionary fans. Sign up now or Log in.

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