The Collaborative International Dictionary
man of action \man of action\ n. A person who prefers to act rather than contemplate and gets things accomplished quickly an efficiently.
Syn: man of deeds.
WordNet
n. someone inclined to act first and think later [syn: man of deeds]
Wikipedia
Man of Action may refer to:
- "Man of Action", a track from the album The Audio of Being by the Matthew Good Band
- "Man of Action", the theme tuned used by Radio North Sea International, composed by Les Reed
- Man of Action Studios, an American animation studio
- Man of Action, 1933 American western film, starring Tim McCoy
- A Man of Action, 1923 film starring Douglas MacLean
- A Man of Action, an episode of the sitcom Dad's Army
Usage examples of "man of action".
I'm not much of a man of action, and I draw most of my courage from good whiskey, but that's why I'm looking to hire people.
Apparently, the Frenchman was a man of action and wasn't entirely satisfied with the new developments.
He'd gotten where he was by rising to the criminal top as a man of action and a consummate risk-taker.
Nonetheless, he thought as he strapped himself in, it just felt right to do the job himself, to show all of them, friend and foe alike, that he was not just a thinker and a planner but a true Renaissance man-scholar and artist and man of action.
Van Horn was a man of action with no patience for life behind a desk.
His eyes glazed in a familiar fashion, and Jerry, ever a man of action, ignored his burns and bruises and pulled Sally down into the seat next to him and got his arm around her and nibbled his way up her neck to her mouth and was putting all of him into a gustatory soul kiss when Chuck snapped his fingers and rejoined them, too carried away by his new idea to notice the rapid pulling away, straightening of clothing and wiping of chins.
He'd always been a man of action, and action, not self-pity, was needed now.
But if Ren was a man of action, he had always been a simple speaker.