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to one's credit

to one's credit prepositional phrase: achieved by the operation of one's personal strengths and merits.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Achieved by the operation of one's personal strengths and merits.
    • A decision that redounded to my credit.
    • At times, Swindon's penalty box resembled a pinball machine. To their credit, they never wavered and for that alone no one could begrudge them the points.2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about to one's credit

What does to one's credit mean?
To one's credit means achieved by the operation of one's personal strengths and merits.
What part of speech is to one's credit?
To one's credit is a prepositional phrase.

Words near to one's credit in the dictionary

  1. to no end
  2. to no purpose
  3. to one's advantage
  4. to one's bone
  5. to one's bones
  6. to one's credit
  7. to one's dying day
  8. to one's face
  9. to one's feet
  10. to one's heart's content
  11. to one's knowledge

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