do credit to someone
(also do someone credit)Definition
› to bring praise and respect to someone: The teacher’s fairness to all her students does her credit.
(Definition of do credit to someone from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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do auxiliary verb FOR EMPHASIS
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do auxiliary verb FOR QUESTIONS/NEGATIVES
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do auxiliary verb TO AVOID REPEATING
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do away with something phrasal verb
- do credit to someone idiom
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do justice to someone/something idiom
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do more harm than good idiom
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do over something phrasal verb
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do someone in phrasal verb CAUSE TO FAIL
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do someone in phrasal verb TIRE
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