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put up or shut up

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  1. put up or shut upverb

    To desist from saying something unless one is able to prove it; to act in a manner that makes further talk unnecessary.

  2. put up or shut upverb

    To put yourself forward for election or cease disloyalty to the incumbent.

Wikipedia

  1. Put Up or Shut Up

    Put Up or Shut Up is an EP by American rock band All Time Low released in 2006 through Hopeless Records.

Wikidata

  1. Put Up or Shut Up

    Put Up or Shut Up is an EP by American pop punk band All Time Low released in 2006 through Hopeless Records. The title originates from lyrics taken from "Break Out! Break Out!". The EP has sold over 60,000 copies. Five of the tracks are rerecordings of the band's debut album, The Party Scene.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of put up or shut up in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of put up or shut up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of put up or shut up in a Sentence

  1. Cam Newton:

    I know who I am. At times, I do remind myself people forget who you are, and what you’ve done. So now I’m in a position now where I need to be myself. It’s really put up or shut up time.

  2. Bill Pascrell:

    I think the American people need to know and the Congress need to know, particularly with all of the possibilities of conflict, it’s put up or shut up time. If there’s nothing there, there’s nothing there.

  3. Rudy Giuliani:

    They should render their report. Put up -- I mean I guess if we were playing poker( you would say)' Put up or shut up.' What do you got ? we have every reason to believe they don't have anything of the President doing anything wrong. I don't think they have any evidence he did anything wrong.

  4. David Zaslav:

    Within the next two years, it's going to be put up or shut up for all of us, can you show you're scaling ? Are you going to be a player in the US ? Are you going to be a player around the world ?

  5. Scott Gilbert:

    In this case, the U.S. government should put up or shut up, if the government believes they have a case, indict Amir. Try Amir. But you, the U.S. government, won’t do that because you can’t do that. You don’t have sufficient factual evidence to do that.

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