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单词 chalk something up
释义

chalk something up

1Achieve something noteworthy: he has chalked up a box office success...
  • Even if everything goes according to plan - and that is a big ‘if’ - many years of gruelling negotiations lie ahead before a genuine achievement can be chalked up.
  • Unfortunately, two of those losses were chalked up to the Red Deer Kings.
  • The Kildare man knows the stroke will be chalked up as a winner in his horse racing mad constituency where obviously a nod is as good as a wink…

Synonyms

achieve, attain, accomplish, gain, earn, win, succeed in making, reach, make, get, obtain;
score, tally, record, register, enter, mark, log
informal clock up, knock up, notch up, turn in, rack up, bag
2Ascribe something to a particular cause: I chalked my sleeplessness up to nerves...
  • Let's all just chalk this up to poetic license and go with the Japan thing.
  • Now I'm inclined to chalk that up to sheer dumb luck, or more accurately, to contingency.
  • There are some things we can chalk up to budgetary constraints and fiscal realities; there are others that we can chalk up to bad priorities.

Synonyms

attribute, assign, ascribe, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, impute;
lay on, pin on, blame on, lay at the door of;
connect with, associate with
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