Marks and Sparks

English edit

(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