Idiom
suit the action to the word
Meaning
To do what one has just proposed or spoken of.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you say you will help, you should suit the action to the word.”
“He promised to fix the broken fence today, and he intends to suit the action to the word.”
“The leader pledged to reform the failing department, and his supporters waited to see if he would truly suit the action to the word.”
Examples
simple
“If you say you will help, you should suit the action to the word.”
contextual
“He promised to fix the broken fence today, and he intends to suit the action to the word.”
complex
“The leader pledged to reform the failing department, and his supporters waited to see if he would truly suit the action to the word.”
Origin
A phrase from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
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