do credit to
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“Its beauty of design and execution would do credit to any part of the world,” the newspaper declared.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2018
Dennett's recycling credentials would do credit to the deepest of Greens.
From The Guardian • May 15, 2013
Other cases needed a persistence that would do credit to Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the right, Shirley engages in fictive voyages that would do credit to Sinbad, confronts pirates, finds buried treasure and sets sail for shore�all in the glowing terms of a child's interior vision.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Brougham's French predilections do credit to his sense of cosmopolitism; but he appears to us somewhat more disposed to conciliate the jealousy of his very irritable French confr�res, than to deal rigorous justice.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
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