Idiom Breakdown

suit the action to the word

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Definition

To do what one has just proposed or spoken of.

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A phrase from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

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"“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!"

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