Marks and Sparks

English

Proper noun

Marks and Sparks

1. (British, colloquial) The retailer Marks & Spencer. [from 1960s]
   • 1961, J. I. M. Stewart, The Man Who Won The Pools, W. W. Norton & Company, page 13:

     He’d thought of going into Marks and Sparks, but now he thought he’d go across and into Woolworth’s.

   • 1972, “All the Young Dudes”, in David Bowie (lyrics), All the Young Dudes, performed by Mott The Hoople:

     And Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks