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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
TALKING THE WALK
"TALKING THE WALK" is the title of a chapter of the book I am reading. Does it mean "talking about walking"?
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" That is, you've got to walk like a coach and talk like a coach if you're going to be a coach. This name of the chapter is play on this: instead of "walking the walk," they have it as: "talking the walk," which is an obvious mangling of the well-known expression. So the chapter must have some kind of contrary theme, something that goes against what is expected, in some way.
- " That is, you've got to walk like a coach and talk like a coach if you're going to be a coach.
- This name of the chapter is play on this: instead of "walking the walk," they have it as: "talking the walk," which is an obvious mangling of the well-known expression.
- So the chapter must have some kind of contrary theme, something that goes against what is expected, in some way.
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There's an expression in English: "Walking the walk and talking the talk," as in: "if you're going to be a football coach, you've got to walk the walk and talk the talk." That is, you've got to walk like a coach and talk like a coach if you're going to be a coach.
This name of the chapter is play on this: instead of "walking the walk," they have it as: "talking the walk," which is
This name of the chapter is play on this: instead of "walking the walk," they have it as: "talking the walk," which is
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But, when I went ahead in the book I figured out that the chapter was about an installation by Richard Wentworth titled Tate to Tate (Walking with Richard Wentworth) in which a group of people walked in the streets with Wentworth (between two Tate museums) and listened to him talking about whatever they encountered in their path. So, I think it really means "talking about walking"? What do you thi
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They did not just walk (during) the walk. They talked (during) the walk. It was a walk and a talk combined.
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