The use of the phrase credit where credit is due in an absolute sense (without a verb such as give, take or deserve) is far more common in UK English than US. The phrase is more likely to be used in the grudging sense in UK than US English.
Comment for my English speaking friends: a common expression to translate this idea in French is:"Rendons à César ce qui appartient à César"
- Credit where credit is due, he's a good player.
- We must give credit to our sponsors who helped pay for this new building.
- I'll give her credit for her beautiful handwriting, but the answers she gave in the test were all wrong!
- Give me credit - I worked all night to get the project finished!
an offer of reconciliation.
According to the Biblical story, after the great flood, Noah sends out a dove to see if the waters have subsided. The dove returns with a fresh olive leaf in her beak and since then the dove became a symbol of peace.
- the government is holding out an olive branch to the demonstrators
To hear news from someone who heard that news from someone else, to learn of something informally by means of gossip and rumor. The information was passed person to person by word of mouth.
- I heard through the grapevine that she was pregnant, but I don'tknow anything more.
"El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" SIMON & GARFUNKEL
https://youtu.be/pey29CLID3I
Original version a melody from the Incas:
https://youtu.be/i8eGnOM7YCg
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world it's saddest sound
Its saddest sound
I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
