"write checks one can't cash" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "writes checks one can't cash",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writing checks one can't cash",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrote checks one couldn't cash",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "written checks one couldn't cash",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "write<,,wrote,written> checks one can't<can't,can't,couldn't> cash"
      },
      "expansion": "write checks one can't cash (third-person singular simple present writes checks one can't cash, present participle writing checks one can't cash, simple past wrote checks one couldn't cash, past participle written checks one couldn't cash)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Michel Prince, Fourth and Goal:",
          "text": "You're acting like a frat boy, which is fun and all, but you're writing checks you can't cash.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Jennifer Brozek, Shadowrun: Elfin Black:",
          "text": "“I think your mouth might be writing checks you can't cash.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make promises one cannot keep, or to make boasts that are not true."
      ],
      "id": "en-write_checks_one_can't_cash-en-verb-XWexf1h4",
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "promise",
          "promise"
        ],
        [
          "boast",
          "boast"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To make promises one cannot keep, or to make boasts that are not true."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "overpromise"
        },
        {
          "word": "put one's money where one's mouth is"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "write checks one can't cash"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "writes checks one can't cash",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writing checks one can't cash",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrote checks one couldn't cash",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "written checks one couldn't cash",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "write<,,wrote,written> checks one can't<can't,can't,couldn't> cash"
      },
      "expansion": "write checks one can't cash (third-person singular simple present writes checks one can't cash, present participle writing checks one can't cash, simple past wrote checks one couldn't cash, past participle written checks one couldn't cash)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "overpromise"
    },
    {
      "word": "put one's money where one's mouth is"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Michel Prince, Fourth and Goal:",
          "text": "You're acting like a frat boy, which is fun and all, but you're writing checks you can't cash.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Jennifer Brozek, Shadowrun: Elfin Black:",
          "text": "“I think your mouth might be writing checks you can't cash.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make promises one cannot keep, or to make boasts that are not true."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "promise",
          "promise"
        ],
        [
          "boast",
          "boast"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To make promises one cannot keep, or to make boasts that are not true."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "write checks one can't cash"
}