brownie points

His government would not be the first to be swept away by the intensity and glamour of global diplomacy which, however difficult or worthy, doesn't necessarily translate into significant brownie points at home.

But the troops offer may gain Sir Keir some diplomatic brownie points in the West Wing.

I don’t want to say this to try to get ideological brownie points, but the fact of the matter is there's nothing enormously brave about me, right?

If Attal can confound pollsters’ expectations and somehow pull off a majority for Macron’s centrist bloc in the June 30 and July 7 two-round election, not only will he earn brownie points from the French president, but he’ll also be in a stronger position to argue that he has the country’s ear and support.

Earlier, Naoto Nakahara, deputy consul general at the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong, told Nikkei that the Hong Kong government was “trying to win brownie points from Beijing.”