take credit

• take the credit

take credit (third-person singular simple present takes credit, present participle taking credit, simple past took credit, past participle taken credit)

1. To accept or acknowledge approval, praise, recognition for something, regardless of its merit or worthiness. [with for]

   take all the credit

• claim for oneself
• lay claim to
• vindicate
• give credit where credit is due

• “take the credit”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “take credit”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “take-credit-for”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.