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单词 to pass the mark
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to pass the mark
e. In certain schools: a badge worn by the pupil who had last committed some particular misdemeanour. to pass the mark: to get rid of such a badge by transferring it to another pupil on detecting him or her committing the same misdemeanour (also figurative). Obsolete.
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to pass the mark1832
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mark1832
1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 198 French was the universal language of the house, and an English mark was passed among the young ladies, transferred from culprit to culprit as they were detected in the fact, and called for three times a day, when the unlucky damsel who happened to be in possession of the badge was amerced in the sum of three~pence.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxii. 316 Bacon liked to be treated with rudeness by a gentleman, and used to pass it on to his inferiors as boys pass the mark.
c1855 E. C. Gaskell Traits & Stories Huguenots (ad fin.) I have now told all I know about the Huguenots. I pass the mark to some one else.
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