Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “actions speak louder than words” and its meaning is “it means that people believe what you do instead of what you say; what you do is more important than what you say”.
Example Sentence: The wife of the British policeman who almost died after investigating the 2018 Salisbury poisonings gave a tart (sharp) response to Boris Johnson’s denunciation of the attempted assassination (poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent) of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as “outrageous”. She responded saying “Actions speak louder than words.”
This phrase is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on Putin and Navalny’s poisoning: actions speak louder than words and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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