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. (transitive with for) To accept or acknowledge approval, praise, recognition for something, regardless of its merit or worthiness.

   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.