chalk sth up to experience
to accept failure and learn from a particular experience:
"So your new job didn't work out very well?" "No, it didn't, but never mind - chalk it up to experience."
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Blaming & accusing
- a bad workman blames his tools idiom
- accusation
- accusatory
- accusing
- allegation
- attribute
- attribution
- carry
- chalk sth up
- charge
- contributory negligence
- face the music idiom
- finger-pointing
- frame
- hang
- indictment
- opprobrium
- recrimination
- stitch sb up
- thank sb for sth idiom
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