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put up or shut up informal Justify oneself or remain silent: they called for the minister to either put up or shut up...- ‘People who want to make serious allegations against a Member of Parliament or, indeed, anybody else, have got to be prepared essentially to put up or shut up,’ Sir Philip said.
- Council chairman Coun Colin Lampard said: ‘We have got to the stage where they must either put up or shut up.’
- The two brothers at the centre of Australia's most infamous gold swindle have today told one of Western Australia's most senior policemen to put up or shut up.
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