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Give CREDIT where credit is due
The older form with
honour
(principally in the sense ‘obeisance, homage’) is now rare. Cf.
ROMANS
xiii. 7 (Reims) Render therefore to all men their due:.. to whom honour, honour.
1777
Letter
29 Oct. in
Collections of Massachusetts Hist. Society
(1917) LXXII. 375
May Honor be given to whom Honor may be due.
1834
Diary
17 Jan. (1941) 50
Loudon must be a man of taste .. and disposed to give all credit where any credit is due.
1894
Girl's Own Paper
6 Jan. 228
The justice and magnanimity which would show ‘honour to whom honour is due’.. is not always found equal to the occasion when it involves the granting of a degree.
1968
Rock Baby
xxii.
You aren't half as daft as I thought … Credit where credit's due.
1976
Wilt
viii.
‘Some maniac …’ ‘Come now, give credit where credit is due,’ interrupted Dr. Board.
1997
Washington Post
14 Apr. C12
‘Give credit where it's due,’ South sighed. ‘The man found the killing opening lead against me.’
fair dealing
;
just deserts
honour
(principally in the sense ‘obeisance, homage’) is now rare. Cf.
ROMANS
xiii. 7 (Reims) Render therefore to all men their due:.. to whom honour, honour.
1777Letter
29 Oct. in
Collections of Massachusetts Hist. Society
(1917) LXXII. 375
May Honor be given to whom Honor may be due.
1834
Diary
17 Jan. (1941) 50
Loudon must be a man of taste .. and disposed to give all credit where any credit is due.
1894
Girl's Own Paper
6 Jan. 228
The justice and magnanimity which would show ‘honour to whom honour is due’.. is not always found equal to the occasion when it involves the granting of a degree.
1968
Rock Baby
xxii.
You aren't half as daft as I thought … Credit where credit's due.
1976
Wilt
viii.
‘Some maniac …’ ‘Come now, give credit where credit is due,’ interrupted Dr. Board.
1997
Washington Post
14 Apr. C12
‘Give credit where it's due,’ South sighed. ‘The man found the killing opening lead against me.’
fair dealing;
just deserts
Don't CROSS the bridge till you come to it
Do not concern yourself with difficulties until they arise. Now also common as the metaphorical phrase
to cross one's bridges when one comes to them
.
1850
Journal
29 Apr. in
Life
(1886) II. 165
Remember the proverb, ‘Do not cross the bridge till you come to it.’
1895
Household Tales
xiv.
One who anticipates difficulty is told not to cross the bridge till he gets to it.
1927
‘’
Quayle's Invention
xv.
Why cross our bridges before we come to them?
1967
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
II. 43
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn our bridges behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
trouble
to cross one's bridges when one comes to them
.
1850Journal
29 Apr. in
Life
(1886) II. 165
Remember the proverb, ‘Do not cross the bridge till you come to it.’
1895
Household Tales
xiv.
One who anticipates difficulty is told not to cross the bridge till he gets to it.
1927
‘’
Quayle's Invention
xv.
Why cross our bridges before we come to them?
1967
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
II. 43
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn our bridges behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
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