no-mark
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of no-mark
C20: from 'someone who makes no mark '
Example Sentences
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Some screwball no-mark in some pointless department will answer a letter to an elector, and end up saying the wrong thing about China, or single moms, or car manufacturers, or dyslexia, thinking that they’re echoing your opinion.
From The Guardian
Then the no-mark will complain about sexism or bullying or some such artificial crime.
From The Guardian
Then your press secretary will deny that’s what you meant and blame the no-mark, and name her.
From The Guardian
It was never meant to be for people like us, the no-mark schmucks who could set ourselves on fire and run through a shopping centre screaming our own names without even getting so much as a second glance from anyone.
From The Guardian
In 2001, West Ham no-mark Hayden Foxe – think a ginger Bobby Moore, only not – fulfilled his dream of becoming a somebody, mistaking a bar for a urinal and deliriously spraying his 15 pints of shame all over it.
From The Guardian
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