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Bigworm Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Walk the walk and talk the talk

how to comprehend the sentence "He's walking the walk and not talking the talk" in following context.

The president, Mr. Garton Ash added, was doing all the right things in his visit to the hearquaters of European Union on Tuesday. but "he's walking the walk and not talking the talk."

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He is behaving on the surface ('doing all the right things' / 'walking the walk') like a US President who wishes to renew old friendships with the EU, but he's not saying ('talking the talk') what the European Union wants to hear.

  • He is behaving on the surface ('doing all the right things' / 'walking the walk') like a US President who wishes to renew old friendships with the EU, but he's not saying ('talking the talk') what the European Union wants to hear.
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He is behaving on the surface ('doing all the right things' / 'walking the walk') like a US President who wishes to renew old friendships with the EU, but he's not saying ('talking the talk') what the European Union wants to hear.

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