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get credit for
Receive acknowledgment or praise for some accomplishment, as in Bill got all the credit for attracting a big audience. Similarly, give credit for means “acknowledge” or “praise,” as in We should give the pianist credit for her work in the program. [Mid-1700s]
Example Sentences
Mike Walsh, assistant director of Riverside County’s Department of Housing and Workforce Solutions, said Lift to Rise and its army of advocates should get credit for helping to change the narrative around affordable housing in the Coachella Valley.
So Ed Martin's brief and bizarre tenure in the spotlight may be coming to a close soon, but the old-school conservative movement should get credit for all the other operatives, saboteurs and radical henchmen they trained over the last few decades who now carrying out Trump's sweeping vision to turn America into a Christian nationalist autocracy and global pariah.
“I get credit for losing. I always say, ‘What if we had lost to Houston in six?’
Like my dad’s young neighbor, the arsonist wants to get credit for being the firefighter.
Jones battled for 103 balls and should get credit for taking the game as deep as she did when the wickets fell around her, but that does not take away from the fact that, as the senior batter, the mismanagement of the situation when batting with the tail was extremely costly.
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