walk the walk

idiom

informal

: to do the things that one says one will do

As the saying goes, "Don't talk the talk unless you can walk the walk!"

Examples of walk the walk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Moonlighting CEOs Ritter is the latest top boss who has tried to walk the walk at their companies to better understand day-to-day challenges. —Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023

The problem goes beyond the fact that Jerry has talked that talk before declining to walk the walk in the past. —Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 31 July 2023

In closing, the defense stuck to its initial sentiments that these men were talking the talk, with no means or intention to walk the walk. —Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2022

The opportunity to walk the walk starts now. —Dallas News, 17 June 2022

Now an unsubstantiated—and perhaps politically motivated—allegation against a female employee of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington and her boss gives the U.S. president and his team a chance to walk the walk. —Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 8 May 2022

There’s little doubt that some who record scamming songs do indeed walk the walk. —New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022

But some really walk the walk, and Alejandro did. —Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Mar. 2022