Walk the walk vs. talk the talk vs. walk the talk The first walk or talk refers to what the person actually does, whereas the second walk or talk refers to a standard to which the person is compared The problem arises when the person meets the standard for describing the walk (the way one lives or should live) but is unable to live up to it - then they talk the talk but don't walk the walk
pronunciation - Why is the L silent in walk but not in bulk . . . The L after ɔː and ɑː and before a consonant is silent in many words like calm, walk, talk, half, calm etc The L after ɪ and before a consonant is not silent like milk, silk, film etc The L after ʌ and before a consonant is not like hulk, bulk etc Question: Is there any rule or this is just random discrepancy? Can anyone please
Origin of walk and talk - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the origin of the phrase "(lets) walk and talk"? I have heard this being said explicitly in conversation, for example, when you're having a conversation with someone but you also need to be somewhere else it's not uncommon to say something like "I have a meeting in 5 minutes, lets walk and talk"
pronunciation - Where did the L in talk go? - English Language Usage . . . In standard pronunciation the l is silent in "talk walk" and similar words (see list above) This is a matter of simplification of pronunciation After the long vowel o: (this is not the correct phonetic sign) the consonant group lk is regularly simplified to k as the clear pronunciation of l+k would be cumbersome
Walk, talk: forms not in any other language Seeking as talk and walk are related قول in Arabic has walk and talk in its meanings The Greek talk and walk tradition we hear of the Greek philosophers, and the Phoenician alphabet going to Greek then Attic then Norse runes shows us where it's legs come from
Can ‘Walk the walk’ stand alone? - English Language Usage Stack . . . However, President used walk the walk alone, not accompanied by talk the talk Is www phrase org’s walk the walk definition that the phrase is almost always accompanied by talk the talk wrong? How can I interpret walk the walk in the specific context of the following President Obama’s remark? And what is the origin of walk the walk? Is this
pronunciation - Walking and Talking Ls - English Language Usage . . . @FumbleFingers: walk, chalk, talk, baulk, caulk, stalk, and so forth Most people in the U S pronounce the l in belt and milk, some pronounce the l in calm and palm, but very few if any pronounce the l in words that rhyme with walk (actually, I just noticed that description's ambiguous
talking the walk - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 'Talk' and 'walk' are only marginally transitive 'He talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk' means that his words sound admirable, but his actions don't match It's a well-known expression Here, I'm guessing another level of unusualness is added to the original expression, for effect (though the modified expression became the more popular)
Looking for a word or expression to describe a person who is all talk . . . A very colloquial and rather odd BrE expression is 'all mouth and trousers', used to refer to someone who is all talk but no substance The actual mentality of the idiom is disputed, but Wiktionary has a go at explaining what it means Strangely, the opposite expression, 'all mouth and no trousers' has exactly the same meaning - all talk, no