Put your money where your mouth is: 02 JUL12

Learning English Conversations

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🗓️ 2 July 2012

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

What does Rosie mean when she tells Li to put her money where her mouth is? Li is confused and thinks it's really disgusting. Listen to more of their conversation about this expression!

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0:00.0	That was a podcast of The English We Speak.
0:04.0	For all the latest downloads and quizzes go to our website BBC
0:09.1	learning English.com
0:11.0	The English we speak.
0:16.0	From BBC learning English. Hi, I'm Rosie. And this is Lee. Hurry up! Look, here's the karaoke bar.
0:31.6	Oh, Rosie, why is the bar on the top floor?
0:37.0	Oh, so many stairs.
0:40.0	Help me please.
0:41.0	I'm so unfit. I need to start doing more exercise. I'm going to join the gym tomorrow.
0:50.9	Tomorrow, why don't you join the gym today?
0:55.0	I will join tomorrow, and then I will go every single day.
1:00.0	I will, I really will.
1:03.0	Lee you've been saying that for months but you never actually do it.
1:08.0	This time I will. I promise.
1:12.0	That's what you always say. You need to put your money where your mouth is.
1:18.0	You want me to put my money where my mouth is? You want me to eat those coins and bank notes?
1:25.8	Oh, that's disgusting! No, Lee, that's not what I meant. To put your money where your
1:31.8	mouth is means to stop just talking about something and to take action.
1:37.0	Ah, so you didn't really want me to put all these coins in my mouth then?
1:42.0	No, please don't. to put all these coins in my mouth then?
1:42.7	No, please don't.
1:44.6	I want you to stop talking about joining the gym
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