Put+in+action
121put your money where your mouth is — If someone puts their money where their mouth is, they back up their words with action. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
122put one's money where one's mouth is — informal take action to support a statement. → monetized …
123put — I. v. a. 1. Place, set, lay, deposit, bring. 2. Impose, enjoin, levy, inflict. 3. Propose, offer, state, present, bring forward. 4. Oblige, compel, force, constrain, push to action. 5. Incite, urge, entice, induce. 6. Express, utter, state in… …
124put the pedal to the metal — Vrb phrs. To go faster, to accelerate. From the action of pressing the accelerator (gas pedal) to the floor of a vehicle in order to make it go faster …
125put the boot in — 1. Take vigorously decisive action (usu. unpleasant). 2. Kick. Attack person by kicking …
126action for partition — A suit in equity, the object of which is to enable those who own property as joint tenants, tenants in common, or coparceners to put an end to such tenancy so as to vest in each tenant a sole estate in specific property or a share of the proceeds …
127into action — to an active state They had already put the plan into action. [=started using the plan] Firefighters are ready to leap/spring/swing into action [=quickly start working] at a moment s notice. ◇ When people or things are called into action, they a …
128To put about — Put Put, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.] 1. To …
