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Meaning of "walk one's talk"

While reading a book, I found a sentence which read, "If you want to be a good parent, you need to walk your talk."
It is difficult to understand the exact meaning of "walk your talk."
I couldn't find this phrase in dictionaries.
Could anybody explain this phrase?
  

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This means that you must commit to action what you have laid out while speaking. " then you really need to do what you said you would do - ground the child for getting near the swimming pool. You will hear this expression quite often in urban colloquy.

  • This means that you must commit to action what you have laid out while speaking.
  • " then you really need to do what you said you would do - ground the child for getting near the swimming pool.
  • You will hear this expression quite often in urban colloquy.
  • " Most native speakers snicker at this because it has become so trite, but it's still in fairly common use.
  • Any threat you make while speaking or any bold declaration you make, you must "walk your talk" and do exactly as you said.
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This means that you must commit to action what you have laid out while speaking. For example, if a mother says "I'm going to ground you for two weeks if you get near that swimming pool again!" then you really need to do what you said you would do - ground the child for getting near the swimming pool.

You will hear this expression quite often in urban colloquy.

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I didn't know myself, but maybe this article I found on the Internet can help you as much as it did to me.

Can you walk the talk?
A talk about talks, and walks:

Everyone knows that there are two ways to talk. You can talk with your talk, which is a popular way to talk. People talk with this talk all the time, but when you talk with your talk, sometimes there is a problem
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0 It is : if you are going to talk the walk you better walk the talk.02br
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0 You didn't find it in dictionaries because you didn't do a proper search. It's there in the online dictionaries. 02br
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00 Try at Yahoo:02br
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0 "Practice what you preach" is an alternative way of saying the same thing without sounding urban colloquy, as mentioned before.0-

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