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
At their best they have a sense of honor and a fear of their bosses that would do credit to the medieval church.
From Time Magazine Archive
Krips took over the Buffalo Symphony in 1954, and under him it has performed with a professional polish that would do credit to a city several times Buffalo's size.
From Time Magazine Archive
For here, a century before Josiah Wedgwood’s time, we have examples of English pottery which would do credit to the atelier of that distinguished potter himself.
From The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods by Chaffers, William
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