坐言起行

Pinyin: zuò yán qǐ xíng Usage: 联合式；作宾语；指人言行必须一致 Explanation: 坐能言，起能行。原指言论必须切实可行，后比喻说了就做。 Source: 《荀子·性恶》故坐而言之，起而可设，张而可施行。” Thesaurus:  put the cart before the horse, act and think in one and the same way, act as one speaks, (literally) The mouth agrees with the mind.--to speak one's mind frankly, inconsiderateness, One's tongue runs before one's wit., honest and outspoken, have the heart in the right place, speak out without beating about the bush; come straight to the point, Outset, reverse the positions of the host and the guest, The sauce is better than the fish ., have a fishbone caught in one's throat, change/speak one''s mind, straight forward talk from an honest man, quick of tongue, I always fast heart, Quick and thoughtless in speech Heart Straight, name and reality consistent, Brainstorm, brainstorm, safe thoroughfare, blurt out, whim, whim, Chongkou Village Antonym Group:  disloyalty, fire in one hand and water in the other, venality, carry fire in one hand and water in the other, like Lord Ye who claimed to be found of dragons but was mortally afraid of them, generosity, act wrongly out of personal considerations pervert the law, bend the law for personal gain, jobbery, Give him aninchand he'll take an ell., appetite cames with eating, Double heart, significance profound, Be trying to do or say Unspeakable, hold one's hand, Hang jemmy, Heart to heart, prevaricate, Avarice knows no bound greed is like a valley that can never be filled, Deep Culture profound argumentation, dramatize foil, Xuanyugushi, Hongyuntuoyue, one's eyes are bigger than one's belly, disloyalty, betray, break one's promise, batten on cab, jobbery, Duplicity, character Less diction, character Cannot but within, speak with one's tongue in one's cheek, Nutshell disbelief, Words, and faithlessness, act otherwise than one says, s feeling, make incessant,exorbitant demands, make endless exorbitant, moneygrubber the pores of one's mind--the source of one's intellectual capacity, be insatiably greedy, take bribes, practise graft skulduggery, the language fails to express the idea, overtly agree, but covertly oppose, use ambiguous language, anon house