Idiom
chalk up to
Meaning
To attribute or account for something; to ascribe.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I chalk up my success to hard work and luck.”
“The team chalked up their loss to poor planning and bad weather.”
“Critics chalked up the novel's enduring appeal to its unflinching honesty about grief and human connection.”
Examples
simple
“I chalk up my success to hard work and luck.”
contextual
“The team chalked up their loss to poor planning and bad weather.”
complex
“Critics chalked up the novel's enduring appeal to its unflinching honesty about grief and human connection.”
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