chalk up to en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, transitive) To attribute or account for something; to ascribe.
Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish.
Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."
2013 August 28, Derek Thompson, “How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, in The Atlantic:“You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.
1990 October 5, “Souter plans to get right down to work”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, volume 85, number 154, section 1, page 14:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| chalks up to | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| chalking up to | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| chalked up to | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| chalked up to | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Synonyms
put down to · put down to · impute · attribute · lay · attach · ascribe · impute · repose · accredit · draw · charge · chalk up to · accredit
Translations (21)
pl przypisywać (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · ru приписать (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · fr mettre sur le compte de (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · fr attribuer la responsabilité (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · nl toeschrijven (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · es atribuir (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · it ascrivere (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · ca atribuir (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · it dare la responsabilità a (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · it addossare la colpa su (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · it addebitare (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · fr attribuer le mérite (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · it incolpare (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · cs přisoudit (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · pl przypisać (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · it attribuire (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · fi syyttää (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · fi laittaa jonkin piikkiin (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · gl atribuír (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · cs přičíst pf co čemu (idiomatic: to attribute something to something) · pt atribuir (idiomatic: to attribute something to something)