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Idioms and Phrases
Be accepted as or believed to be, usually something that is not so. For example, Jean is 23 but could pass for a teenager , or They thought that copy would pass for an original . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
You hear that theme in how singing makes the time pass for the workers in the cotton rows, and in the scene when Slim tells a story about a friend who got lynched and the man’s screams echo into the present until Slim hums and drums his fingertips to overwhelm the sound of all that pain.
The Supreme Court kicked things off by weighing in on the extreme methods Trump is using to carry out his immigration agenda—and it once again decided to give him a pass for lawlessness.
There seemed to be a mix-up in the line-out call when Johnny Matthews throw sailed right over the top, but Adam Hastings was on to it and slipped a pass for Venter to crash over.
James found Reaves in the corner on a no-look pass for a three-pointer.
As a Dodger fan since 1958 I cannot give the team a pass for agreeing to visit the White House.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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