Marks and Sparks
/ˈmɑːks ən(d) ˈspɑːks/informal
noun
(A familiar name for) the merchandising company of Marks and Spencer plc; any of the stores owned by this firm.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The Sunday Times. From Marks and Spencer (from the names of Michael Marks, Polish-born English retailer and Thomas Spencer, English retailer, who formed a business partnership in 1894), with alteration of the final element to rhyme with the first, after the plural of spark.
- make
- make a beeline for
- make a (big) thing of (or about)
- makeable
- make a bolt for
- make a break for
- make a clean breast of it
- make a clean job of something
- make a clean sweep
- make a conquest of
- make a day (or night) of it
- make a dead set at
- make-a-do
- make a drama out of
- make a fight of it
- make a fool of
- make after
- make a fuss
- make a fuss over (or of)
- make a galah of oneself
- make (a) game of
- make a go of
- make a hames of
- make a hash of
- make-ahead