English / proverb
Drive for Show, Putt for Dough
MEANING IN ENGLISH
Flamboyant, visible achievements attract attention, but quiet, disciplined, and essential execution produces real results.
In context
01
Charismatic presentations impress investors, but in wealth preservation, drive for show, putt for dough.
02
The retiring mentor warned that visionary ideas mean nothing without execution: drive for show, putt for dough.
Synonyms
substance over style,results matter most,execution trumps rhetoric
Antonyms
all style and no substance,flash in the pan,all talk and no action
Collocations
remember that drive for show,in finance drive for show,a classic case of drive for show