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come to pass
Nothing occurred that seemed important
What is happening?
The meeting took place off without an incidence -
cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity
He passed himself off as a secret agent
She passed the glass off as diamonds -
disappear gradually
The pain eventually passed off - expel (gases or odors)
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be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity
She passed off as a Russian agent -
disregard
She passed off the insult
How To Use pass off In A Sentence
- The Eagles pass defense outgained the Dallas pass offense.
- But newspapers have NO right to lie to their readers and pass off advertising as editorial news or comment.
- He used their writings to forge autographs and whole letters, as well as trying to pass off others' work as his own. The Times Literary Supplement
- This subsense, 2, does not acknowledge an attempt to pass off same-sex couples as like a marriage. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
- I often get headaches, but they seem to pass off in a little while.
- He used their writings to forge autographs and whole letters, as well as trying to pass off others' work as his own. The Times Literary Supplement
- I'm afraid that those who might be snowed by the report's valiant attempt to pass off hope for potential are few.
- It is, however, one of the most blatant examples of companies trying to pass off an advertisement as reality.
- What were much more common, as various hacks and police forces found to their cost, were chancers trying either to pass off innocuous material as weapons-grade when they had a customer, or to secure rewards from the authorities.
- He tried to pass off a false Dagas on the auctioneer.
