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mark one's own homework en · VERB
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(UK, idiomatic) To assume the role of evaluating one's doings when a disinterested party is required.
Aware that his organisation was to be found guilty on at least four charges, he had tried to mark his own homework by submitting a 500-page dossier to the EC attempting to rebut its conclusions before they were even published.
2023 November 2, James O'Brien, “Matthew Elliot”, in How They Broke Britain, Ebury Publishing:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mark, one's, own, homework.
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