what does this sentence mean?

Can you put money where your mouth is?


Thanks.

Boy,


It means ''kan ue poot munee wer yor mouth iz?''

It means "you're doing a lot of talking (generally bragging or trying to talk something up), but are you willing to put up money to support what you're saying?"

Example:

JOHN: I have the fastest car on the block.
DAVE: Oh yeah. Well I think my car is faster.
JOHN: Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is? I'll bet you $500 dollars that mine is faster.
DAVE: You're on.

1. To make a dubious claim that you wholeheartedly believe is true that you're willing to bet on it.

2. To give financial support to activities or causes that you believe are right.

To "put your money where your mouth is" means to
take concrete action to support some espoused belief.
The phrase is a common idiom in AE at least. In real
use, the phrase doesn't usually involve money, although
that was probably the motivation behind the original saying.

For example, suppose that John has some irritating personal
habit, and Rob tells me "Someone should go talk to John to
tell him about that habit." I might say to Rob, "Why don't you
put your money where your mouth is and tell him yourself?"

Or, suppose that I knew someone who says that we
should all switch to some alternative web brower,
but that person uses IE. You could tell the them
to put their money where their mouth is, meaning
that if they want to advocate the new browser they
should switch to it themselves.

Thanks guys. Good explanations so far.


The two companies grew "tenfold" in the ensuing ten years.

I don't get the meaning of tenfold in the above sentence, it is not listed in collins pc dictionary as well as a couple of others.

It means the companies grew ten times as much or ten times more.

You've got to look up "-fold".

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=30116&dict=CALD