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put up or shut up
idiom informal
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: 采取行动（如果你说某人应“采取行动”或“闭嘴”，你的意思是说，他们要么采取行动以便做他们所说的事情，或停止谈论这些事情）
You keep saying you're going to ask her out. Well, put up or shut up.你老是说要叫她出来。好吧，采取行动吧，否则就闭嘴。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistics: expressions telling people to stop doing something
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butt out
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hold everything!idiom
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pack something in
put
put something up
that'll do!idiom
that's itidiom
that's thatidiom
timeout
zip itidiom
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