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Idioms and Phrases
Reduce the price of something, as in If they mark down these shoes, I'll buy two pairs . The mark here alludes to the label indicating a price. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
You must be off quickly to the place, Jean, and hire a flat there, where a watcher can mark down all her doings.
Min and I played gin rummy that night but we kept forgetting to mark down the score.
Put a mark down there for me where the two police officers were standing.
Ill mark down each sum in a book opposite the name of the man 94 whose it is, and you shall have it all when I pay you your wages.
Little Mrs Maidan was very pale, with a red mark down her left cheek, and the key would not come out of her black hair.
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