take credit
Frequency: 8.017.6 per million words
to accept praise for something, sometimes undeservedly
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Examples (10)
- He's always trying to take credit for work he didn't do.
- The manager took all the credit for the team's successful project.
- You should take credit for your brilliant ideas; don't be so modest.
- Why does she always take credit when it was a group effort?
- I've never taken credit for someone else's achievements.
- I can't take credit for this; my colleague did most of the work.
- Taking credit for others' contributions is unethical in a professional environment.
- If you take credit for the success, you must also accept the blame for any failures.
- He was unfairly taking credit for the discovery while his partner remained silent.
- It's wrong to take credit for something you found on the internet.