put up or shut up
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› If you say someone should put up or shut up, you mean that they should either take action in order to do what they have been talking about, or stop talking about it: You keep saying you're going to ask her out. Well, put up or shut up.Expressions telling people to stop doing something
(Definition of put up or shut up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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put the squeeze on sb idiom
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put the word about/around/out/round idiom
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put their heads together idiom
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put two and two together and make five idiom
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put two and two together idiom
- put up or shut up idiom
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put up phrasal verb
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put up sth phrasal verb
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put up with sth/sb phrasal verb
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put upon adjective
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put verb (CONDITION)
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Synonyms and related words:
- age noun (TIME SPENT ALIVE)
- break it up! idiom
- cool it idiom
- cut verb (STOP)
- give it a rest idiom
- hold everything! idiom
- hold it! idiom
- hold your horses idiom
- just a minute/moment/second idiom
- keep your nose out of sth idiom
- knock it off idiom
- leave it out! idiom
- pack sth in phrasal verb
- that'll do! idiom
- that's it idiom
- that's that idiom
- time noun (TIME AVAILABLE)
- timeout exclamation, noun
- wait for it idiom
- zip it idiom
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