do credit to
Example Sentences
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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
On the right, Shirley engages in fictive voyages that would do credit to Sinbad, confronts pirates, finds buried treasure and sets sail for shore�all in the glowing terms of a child's interior vision.
From Time Magazine Archive
But that does not entirely do credit to the phenomenon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The braggadocio of their fighting songs would do credit to Falstaff; but the Maori affords us the anomaly of a braggart who is not by any means a coward.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray
