put your money where your mouth is meaning?

Question

What is the meaning of "to put your money where your mouth is" idiom?

Answer 1

 

Idiom Conjugations:

 

Answer 2

Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Putting your money where your mouth is can often mean that you use money to demonstrate your belief in your words.
 

Answer 3

Idiom Usage:

In the imperative:

"Put your money where your mouth is!"

Although money is often used to prove your beliefs in what you say, action is equally common.
Be careful with the verb tenses in the plural forms and the past forms.

 

Answer 4

Idiom Scenario 2:

Ned and Grace are sitting at their kitchen table one morning.  Ned is complaining about their neighbor who is always making noise in his backyard very early in the mornings.  Ned complains and complains about the neighbor's noise until Grace says ...

"Ned, put your money where your mouth is and go and talk to the neighbor!"

If Ned is serious about what he says, he will go over and have a chat with his neighbor about the noise.

Answer 5

Idiom Scenario 1:

Victor and Bruce, two teenage friends, are standing at the bottom of a ten flight set of stairs ...
Victor:  "I bet I can beat you to the top!"
Bruce:   "No way!  I am way faster than you."
Victor:  "Put your money where your mouth is!"
Bruce:  "OK.  I will bet you five dollars that I can beat you to the top."
Victor:  "You're on.  Let's race!"

Answer 6

Idiom Definition:

"to put your money where your mouth is"

to show by action that you believe in what you are saying
 

Synonyms:
authenticate, evidence, evince, exhibit, manifest, prove, show, test, validate
 
 
 
This man has literally put his money where his mouth is. - - - - ->