mark one's own homework

verb

To assume the role of evaluating one's doings when a disinterested party is required.

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Meanings

verbmark one's own homework (third-person singular simple present marks one's own homework, present participle marking one's own homework, simple past and past participle marked one's own homework)

present singular third person marks one's own homework · participle present marking one's own homework · participle past marked one's own homework · past marked one's own homework

  1. UKidiomaticTo 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
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mark, one's, own, homework.
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