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Telling a person that they can talk the talk but not walk the walk can have a few different meanings, but they all come back to the same principle: actions speak louder than words. This question stems from the challenge "if you talk the talk, you've got to walk the walk." An example would be a person talking of principles. You can talk all you want about principles, but you have to actually live by them, too.

If you tell a person they can talk the talk but not walk the walk, it can mean the person is a hypocrite, thus not practicing what they preach. But it can also mean they are procrastinating. They're talking about doing things but not actually doing them. They're all talk, no action.

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