do credit to

Idioms  

1. see do one proud, def. 1.

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Example Sentences

“Its beauty of design and execution would do credit to any part of the world,” the newspaper declared.

From New York Times

Walter Kerr, writing in The Times, commented, “Miss Allen floats in like fresh green seaweed borne shoreward by her own tidal wave of chatter, silver slippers and gloves flashing signals like the RKO tower, whooping with laughter that would do credit to an unstrung hyena.”

From New York Times

Reviewing “A Musical Season,” one of several anthologies of Mr. Porter’s work, in The New York Times Book Review in 1974, the music critic John Yohalem wrote approvingly, “In a field that tends to strain verbal resources — there are just so many ways to describe a beautiful sound — Porter uses a vocabulary so wide it would do credit to a pornographer.”

From New York Times

Dennett's recycling credentials would do credit to the deepest of Greens.

From The Guardian

In recent days, visitors to the city have been surprised to see pigeons sporting plumages that would do credit to a tropical parrot: green and yellow pigeons; pigeons whose feathers radiate electric blue or strident vermillion; even pigeons that seem to be robed in imperial purple.

From The Guardian