Relationships
keep score
track who has done more
If you keep score in a relationship or disagreement, you carefully track who has helped, given, or gained more.
Hear it in real life
I paid for dinner last time.
I know, but we shouldn't keep score over every small expense.
Good friends help each other without keeping score.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We shouldn't keep the score of who paid last time.
Say: We shouldn't keep score of who paid last time.
In this figurative expression, do not add "the" before "score."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
keep score; keep score of something; without keeping score
Your turn: say it out loud
Good friends help each other without keeping score.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
keep score
track who has done more
“Good friends help each other without keeping score.”
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