talk is cheap

谚语
中文释义

英文释义

谚语
  1. It is easy to make boastful or unrealistic statements which are not supported by actions or evidence. idiomatic
    — Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. “Talk is cheap,” said Long Bill Hodge. “What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night.”

词源

The expression first appears c. 1783 in the play All pleas'd at last.
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