all talk
idiom
: talking about doing things but never actually doing them
The town's last mayor was all talk (and no action).
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Trump described his apparent conversation with Cook just a few hours after The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple will likely be raising iPhone prices, but is tying the hikes to design changes and new features to avoid all talk of the trade war.
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Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 12 May 2025
There’s a constituency within the White House that still believes Apple is two-faced, all talk and no action.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
Also, the women all talk about each other in their smaller groups, and Dorit and Erika surely discuss Sutton amongst themselves, just as Sutton and Garcelle talk about them among themselves.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
Rare-earth resources, tourism and even water exports are in play in Greenland, a vast territory that is part of Denmark, Vivienne Walt writes for DealBook.
Denmark has dismissed all talk of selling.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 12 May 2025
There’s a constituency within the White House that still believes Apple is two-faced, all talk and no action.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
Also, the women all talk about each other in their smaller groups, and Dorit and Erika surely discuss Sutton amongst themselves, just as Sutton and Garcelle talk about them among themselves.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
Rare-earth resources, tourism and even water exports are in play in Greenland, a vast territory that is part of Denmark, Vivienne Walt writes for DealBook.
Denmark has dismissed all talk of selling.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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“All talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20talk. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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