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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
As a Dodger fan since 1958 I cannot give the team a pass for agreeing to visit the White House.
Too many use their pets as an excuse for bad human behavior, like animal accessories that grant a free pass for owners to terrorize service workers while gaining Instagram followers.
Anze Kopitar doubled the lead late in the period when his centering pass for Kempe deflected in off the skate of Carolina’s Jordan Martinook eight seconds into a power play.
Jude Bellingham: A superb pass for Lewis-Skelly's opener.
Smith still had work to as the ball came to him, but did it perfectly, delaying his pass for a fraction of a second to commit the drifting Barassi and give Daly time to hit the hole flat and at full tilt.
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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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