talk a good game

idiom

informal

: to say things that make people believe that one can do something or that something is true about oneself even though it is not true

They talk a good game, but they're not really ready for the championship.

She talks a good game about protecting the environment, but she doesn't even recycle.

Examples of talk a good game in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Still, Harmon’s activity is reflective of a political culture in Springfield where officials talk a good game about the importance of ethics in government but routinely stop short of adopting robust laws governing their conduct. —Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025

Collaboration Most law firm leaders talk a good game about collaboration, but few truly reward it. —Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024

George Kittle, Fred Warner, Christian McCaffrey and Trent Williams can talk a good game as well as play one. —Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024

This stunt may have been designed to show up the islanders as heartless liberals who talk a good game but don’t walk the walk. —Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024

Abdallah, the Urban League official, said union leaders talk a good game on diversity but never deliver. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022

According to DeSantis, liberals in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts talk a good game, sticking up for undocumented immigrants with virtue-signaling rhetoric, while red states like his bear the cost and burden of taking care of them. —Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022

Rhymes for talk a good game

• acclaim
• aflame
• airframe
• ballgame
• became
• declaim
• defame
• disclaim
• doorframe
• exclaim
• inflame
• mainframe