chalk up to | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Toattributeoraccountfor something; toascribe.Chalkitup tofear that he didn't finish.1990October 5, “Souter plans to get right down to work”, inFort Worth Star-Telegram, volume85, number154, section 1, page14:“You canchalkitupmaybeto, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.2013August 28, Derek Thompson, “How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, inThe Atlantic‎[1]:Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, havechalked upthe company's problemtothe "innovator's dilemma."

Examples:

EN: That's something you can chalk up to nature. All right, all right.
ES: Lo traje hasta la primer masa de tierra que apareció.
EN: It has a strange air that I could chalk up to imagination till today.
ES: El aire es raro, pensaba que era mi imaginación, hasta hoy.
EN: The ones I chalk up to your boss.
ES: Los que yo adjudico a vuestro jefe.
EN: The earthquake I was willing to chalk up to hideous coincidence, but these winds?
ES: El terremoto que estaba dispuesto a creer una horrible coincidencia, ¿pero estos vientos?
ID: Gempa bumi mau saja kuanggap sebagai kebetulan mengerikan. Tapi bagaimana dengan angin?
EN: They're now coming off two consecutive Premier League matches in which they haven't quite been able to maintain the peak altitudes they've hit at times during this soaring season of theirs - a relative slippage they most likely chalk up to fatigue.
HI: वे अब लगातार दो प्रीमियर लीग मैचों से बाहर आ रहे हैं जिसमें वे अपने इस बढ़ते मौसम के दौरान कई बार शिखर की ऊंचाई को बनाए रखने में सक्षम नहीं हैं - एक सापेक्ष फिसलन वे सबसे अधिक संभावना थकान के लिए चाक करते हैं।
EN: There have been isolated incidents that I chalk up to someone's ignorance.
HI: अनजाने लोगों ने बांधा है मुझको
HI: ग़लत-फ़हमी किसी की दूर करता रह गया हूँ
HI: किसी की बेवफाई का मिला है ये मुझको सिला।
EN: There's another reason for the delay though, one I can't chalk up to love of country: shame.
HI: या मैं प्यार कर न पाया. . . या दुनिया में प्यार नहीं.
HI: हो सकता है कि प्यार क्या होता है ये तो मैं नहीं जानता लेकिन. . .

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