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Whether you’re taking on a new challenge or were training for a canceled race, you can virtually chalk up a personal best.

Kim Jong-un Resurfaces, State Media Says, After Weeks of Lurid Rumors

The North Korean leader’s appearance comes after weeks of unsubstantiated news reports suggesting that Mr. Kim was “brain-dead” or “in grave danger.”

Success in Hollywood came late to Robert Altman, and by the time he became a celebrity at 45, it seemed he had already settled into the role that suited him - the grand old man, cantankerous and wayward. He was compared to Fellini, as a creator of a cinematic world entirely his own, to Welles and to Stroheim. Like the latter two, he knew spectacular decline after glory, but unlike them, had a journeyman's pragmatism that allowed him to carry on, and more than once to resurface triumphantly.

chalk up

1. Score or earn, as in She chalked up enough points to be seeded first in the tournament. This term alludes to recording accounts (and later, scores) in chalk on a slate. [c. 1700]
2. Credit or ascribe, as They chalked their success up to experience. [First half of 1900s]

chalk something up

• 1  achieve something noteworthy:he has chalked up a box office success

2ascribe something to a particular cause:I chalked my sleeplessness up to nerves