put down to
Upper Intermediate (B2)neutral
To say that something happened because of something else.
"She put her success down to years of hard work and a little bit of luck."
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do you put down to Pep a lot, an awful lot.

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had early on in life that I had put down to my childhood,

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Aren't you glad that you didn't get put down to one dexterity for super defense?