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单词 to give a clean chit
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to give (a person or thing) a clean chit
2. Chiefly South Asian. Originally: a written reference testifying to a person’s ability or reliability, used when applying for a new job. Now usually more generally: a review, rating, assessment, or verdict. Frequently with modifying adjective, as good, bad, clean (esp. in to give (a person or thing) a clean chit), etc.
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1868 Bombay Gaz. 13 July 2/5 A servant who gets a bad chit at once gets some one to read it out to him, and on finding it unsatisfactory forthwith tears it up.
1893 S. J. Duncan Simple Adventures Memsahib vii. 75 They..send the fellow off with another excellent chit! And one would never engage a servant without chits.
1959 Civic Affairs (India) Nov. 78/2 The Communist [Group]..refused to give the Mayor a clean chit. They accused him of acting under pressure from the Congress.
1976 J. Godden Ahmed & Old Lady 74 From his chits he seems to have worked chiefly in Lahore.
1989 Independent (Nexis) 25 Sept. 22 The United Kingdom economy received what Mr Lawson called ‘a pretty good chit’ from the IMF's economists.
2007 J. Dhawan Changing Face Indian Econ. xxii. 393 While handing a good chit on the reform measures so far, the reports want India to act fast to set right its large fiscal imbalances.
2022 Times of India (Nexis) 12 Mar. [He] said that despite the TRS government trying to fix him in many cases, the court gave him a clean chit.
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