J.S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, Slang and Its Analogues (1890), says that "to chalk up, or to chalk it up" is "To credit, or take credit; to put to one's account." In the context of tavern bills, "take …

2015年12月16日 · chalk-full V: chock it up to. Confuses chockfull with chalk it up to. Chock-full is an old phrase, perhaps coming from choke-full or full to choking. Chalk it up to comes from …

2021年1月10日 · I know that it has the same meaning as "chalk one up for", but I couldn't find out why it works with the word 'chock'. Is it something they used to do in the past, or is it simply a …

**Chock it up** (or **chuck** it up to) is an [eggcorn][1]. Given your example sentence, it should be **chalk it up**: > To credit or ascribe: *Chalk that up to experience.* ([AHD][2]) Some …

2020年10月10日 · Based on the pairs chalk, bald and chalk, milk, the identity of both the consonant following the L and the vowel preceding the L could affect whether the L was lost. …

I've said "open the light" and "close the light" my whole life (I am now 61 years old). I was born and grew up in the Bronx to American-born parents. The only thing I can figure out is that …

2016年9月28日 · This boils down neatly to the BritE expression "Cock-up before conspiracy", describing where to start in trying to determine the reason for some mishap. The expression is …

2023年1月17日 · It comes out to column number 459880359120217134284773785. Since it’s all the same digit (O is the 15th letter), you can calculate it as SUM(15 * 26^n, 0, 18), in other …

2011年5月29日 · I would chalk it up to more ignorance than apathy, and also because there is no other generic shorthand word to refer to all the native peoples of northern Canada, Russia, …

2022年4月21日 · Old Cat | A game similar to tick-tack-toe may be played as follows: One Picture Nine Game Card is given to two pupils, and the corresponding small cards are spread out face …