easy mark
Example Sentences
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Matthiesen didn’t appear to be an easy mark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Her beauty made her a target, and her soft heart all but guaranteed she’d be an easy mark.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
Chandler Cunningham-South charges back to halfway and Marcus Smith chips forward - but the the kick is too long, into the 22 and Romain Ntamack calls an easy mark.
From BBC ● May 4, 2024
He is an easy mark — a rare black man and immigrant in the shrinking mill city of Campbellton, who trained as a doctor during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
I thought he would be an easy mark, being stiff, paralyzed, but of course the agony was mine.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
