"put one's money where one's mouth is" meaning in English

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      "form": "puts one's money where one's mouth is",
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    {
      "form": "putting one's money where one's mouth is",
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      "form": "put one's money where one's mouth was",
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      "glosses": [
        "To make or take a bet."
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          "ref": "2011 September 23, Jason Palmer, “Light speed: Flying into fantasy”, in BBC News",
          "text": "\"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings,\" said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss...\"So let me put my money where my mouth is: if the Cern experiment proves to be correct and neutrinos have broken the speed of light, I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61",
          "text": "\"We've put money towards it and it's up to government to put the money where its mouth is.\"",
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        "To take an obvious stake in the truth of a claim that one is making."
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        "(idiomatic) To take an obvious stake in the truth of a claim that one is making."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "21 79",
          "word": "put up or shut up"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "21 79",
          "word": "talk is cheap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "21 79",
          "word": "write checks one can't cash"
        }
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    },
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        {
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