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black mark en · NOUN
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(idiomatic) Something that negatively affects someone's reputation.
"It taints your CV as people look at it and see what's gone on and it does put a bit of a black mark against you," says the man who, in 2006, was head hunted by Preston only for his tenure to be brought to a halt 17 months later.
2011 April 6, Aimee Lewis, quoting Paul Simpson, “Management after the sack”, in BBC Sport:
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