chalk up
to score or register (something): we chalked up 100 in the game
to credit (money) to an account etc (esp in the phrase chalk it up)
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How to use chalk up in a sentence
Such a concerted campaign of misrepresentation will be hard to chalk up to the actions of a few rogue police officers.
Inquiry Finds Police Cover-Up in Deaths of 96 Fans at Hillsborough | Peter Jukes | September 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThey'll take our line, an' we're to chalk up the position an' the course to New York.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea | Morgan RobertsonI can chalk up a score with more rapidity than any man in England,' was his melancholy jest.
The Wits and Beaux of Society | Grace & Philip WhartonClerks away ahead joyfully chalk up our hours of lateness on the announcement slate.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence"You won't chalk up 'Mother will be angry' now I hope," said Burton.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton | Thomas Wright
Presently some wags began to chalk up 'Fotheringay for ever!'
The History of Pendennis | William Makepeace Thackeray
Other Idioms and Phrases with chalk up
Score or earn, as in She chalked up enough points to be seeded first in the tournament. This term alludes to recording accounts (and later, scores) in chalk on a slate. [c. 1700]
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