put up or shut up

Meaning

1. used to tell sb to stop just talking about sth and actually do it, show it, etc.

In the movies · 2

• Put up... or shut up.Lifeboat1944
• You'll put up, and you'll shut up. You hear nothing, and you see nothing.Once Upon a Time in America1984

From the same entry

• put it about
• I wouldn't put it past
• put it to that
• put one over on
• put through it
• put together
• put about
• put above
• put yourself across
• put aside
• put at
• put away