Idiom
do the talking
Meaning
To convey the message; to communicate an idea or create an impression.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Let your work do the talking.”
“He did not need to argue his point because his impressive results did the talking for him.”
“Rather than engaging in empty rhetoric, the artist preferred to let the raw emotion of her paintings do the talking for her.”
Examples
simple
“Let your work do the talking.”
contextual
“He did not need to argue his point because his impressive results did the talking for him.”
complex
“Rather than engaging in empty rhetoric, the artist preferred to let the raw emotion of her paintings do the talking for her.”
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