Accolade to someone

[canadalynx]

Hello.

I watched the news today.
A lady in her 30s talked about her adverse experience with the cyclone that hit her residential area.
At the end of her interview, she mentioned "accolade to the team..."
My question is if it's common to use that particular phrase in that situation or she could have just said " I would like to thank the team.." or "kudos to the team" or even " "The ...team have done an excellent job.."
What is natural in this scenario?

Thank you.

 

[emsr2d2]

[STRIKE]Hello.[/STRIKE] Unnecessary. Just go straight in with your question.

I [STRIKE]watched[/STRIKE] was watching the news today and a lady in her 30s [STRIKE]talked[/STRIKE] was talking about her adverse experience with the cyclone that hit her residential area. At the end of her interview, she [STRIKE]mentioned[/STRIKE] said "accolade to the team...".

[STRIKE]My question is if it's[/STRIKE] Is it common to use that particular phrase in that situation or could she [STRIKE]could[/STRIKE] have just said "I would like to thank the team ...", [STRIKE]or[/STRIKE] "kudos to the team" or even "The ... team have done an excellent job ..."?
What is natural in this scenario?

[STRIKE]Thank you.[/STRIKE]

Please note my changes above. Remember that an ellipsis is made up of three dots with a space before them, and a space after them if the next character is a word. If the next character is a punctuation mark, you don't need the final space.

Please give us her complete sentence containing that fragment.

 

[canadalynx]

Please note my changes above. Remember that an ellipsis is made up of three dots with a space before them, and a space after them if the next character is a word. If the next character is a punctuation mark, you don't need the final space.

Please give us her complete sentence containing that fragment.

Hi!
Thank you for the corrections.

I was watching the news today and a saw a lady in her 30s talk about her adverse experience with the cyclone that hit her residential area. At the end of her interview, she said "Accolade to the team ...".

Is it common to use that particular phrase in that situation or could she have just said "I would like to thank the team ...", "Kudos to the team" or even " The team have done an excellent job"?

What is natural in this scenario?

I can't remember much what was the full sentence but I am indeed intrigued by the notion of "sounding natural" in this particular case.
Based on the situation, a victim of a natural disaster also talked about the rescuers' effort on TV. By the way, it took place in a small town. Does the sentence "Accolade to the team" sound natural in this case?
I am not referring to any formal functions, charity events, award shows in which "Accolade to the team" would sound more appropriate to my ears.
I might completely miss the mark.

How would you view it?

 

[jutfrank]

Are you saying that Accolade to the team was the complete utterance or just part of it? I can't imagine somebody saying this as a complete utterance. If it was a complete utterance, I suppose it could possibly mean something like 'Hats off to the team', but it doesn't sound very natural to me.

If it was only a fragment of the complete utterance, I don't think we can comment usefully—we'll need more context to understand it.

 

[Tarheel]

I would say:

She talked about her experience with the tornado that hit her neighborhood.

 

[canadalynx]

Are you saying that Accolade to the team was the complete utterance or just part of it? I can't imagine somebody saying this as a complete utterance. If it was a complete utterance, I suppose it could possibly mean something like 'Hats off to the team', but it doesn't sound very natural to me.

If it was only a fragment of the complete utterance, I don't think we can comment usefully—we'll need more context to understand it.

Yes.
I do understand what she meant was ‘Hats off to the team’ but she used ‘Accolade to the team’ instead to convey the same idea.
To my understanding, she uttered it like a full sentence.

 

[Tarheel]

I would say:

She talked about her experience with the tornado that hit her neighborhood.

Why would you not say it was an adverse experience?

 

[Tdol]

People say many things. This is not one to copy.

 

[GoesStation]

She might possibly have said Accolades to the team. It still doesn't sound particularly natural, but I don't think anyone would use the singular.