take credit for

take credit for something

to allow people to believe that one has done something praiseworthy, whether or not one has actually done it. I can't take credit for the entire success. Toby helped a lot. Mary took credit for everything that Dave did.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
SongÜL	-	Turkish
Silvester	sil-VES-tər (English)	Dutch, English, Slovene, Slovak, German, Late Roman
Manda	-	Croatian, Serbian
Bracha	-	Hebrew
Dipika	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
Sosimo	so-SEE-mo	Spanish