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Mark
God bless the mark! An ejaculation of contempt or scorn. (See Save The Mark.)
“To be ruled by my conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,
who, God bless the mark! is a kind of devil.” —Shakespeare:
Merchant of Venice, ii. 2.
To make one's mark. To distinguish oneself. He has written his name
(or made his mark) on the page of history.
Up to the mark.
Generally used in the negative; as, “Not quite up to the mark,” not
good enough, not up to the standard fixed by the Assay office for gold
and silver articles; not quite well.
Mark
(St.), in Christian art, is represented as being in the
prime of life; sometimes habited as a bishop, and, as the historian of
the resurrection, accompanied by a winged lion (q.v.). He holds
in his right hand a pen, and in his left the Gospel. (See Luke.)
Mark
(Sir). A mythical king of Cornwall, Sir Tristram's
uncle. He lived at Tintagel Castle, and married Isolde the Fair, who
was passionately enamoured of his nephew, Sir Tristram. The illicit
loves of Isolde and Tristram were proverbial in the Middle Ages.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Mark from Infoplease:
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