Meaning of suit the action to the word | Babel Free

Definitions

To do what one has just proposed or spoken of.

idiomatic

Examples

““Hide!” cried Ebony, with a roll of his huge eyes, as he suited the action to the word, […]”

“After giving vent to violent expressions of hostility, he grasped the bill in his hand and pronounced it to be a huge fraud, fit only to be spat upon, and trampled under foot—whereupon the honourable member suited the action to the word!”

CEFR level