chalked up
Recorded as achieved
Chalked up means attributed or credited, often after the fact: She chalked up her success to hard work.
The phrase comes from recording scores or debts on a chalkboard.
To chalk something up is to add it to a tally—wins, losses, experiences: Chalk it up to experience.
The team chalked up another victory.
- attributedAssigned to a source
- recordedCaptured for posterity
- talliedSummed and recorded
- racked upAccumulated in quantity
- creditedAcknowledged as source
marked · blamed · notched · accomplished · assigned · earned · achieved · won · accounted · scored · accumulated · ascribed · registered · tracked · imputed · logged · noted · itemized
chalked updenied
Refused or disavowed
disavowed · disclaimed · deflected · disowned · passed the buck
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forfeited · surrendered · gave up · squandered · threw away
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