chalk up

British  

verb

1. to score or register (something)

   we chalked up 100 in the game

2. to credit (money) to an account etc (esp in the phrase chalk it up )

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chalk up Idioms  

1. 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]

2. Credit or ascribe, as They chalked their success up to experience . [First half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Those explosive gains can be chalked up to one thing: artificial intelligence.

From Barron's

Flown remotely by pilots in the U.S., the MQ-9s have chalked up an important and previously undisclosed combat first.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those who know Michael, who is also a Stanford-trained lawyer, chalk up his public bellicosity toward Anthropic to a fierce professional loyalty.

From The Wall Street Journal

When contradictions pile up, they are chalked up to style rather than substance.

From Salon

The key difference between the actions of a company like Browne’s or university researchers and those of Minimax or DeepSeek can be chalked up to a few things.

From MarketWatch