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Pass off

verb

Be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity.

Disregard.

Cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity. "He passed himself off as a secret agent"

Disappear gradually. Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass.

Come to pass. Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, take place. "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

Expel (gases or odors). Synonyms: breathe, emit.

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"Pass off" Quotes from Famous Books

... our breakfast this morning 'pass off,' like the better sort of breakfasts in Deerbrook,[120] in which people seemed to have come into the world chiefly to eat breakfast in every possible variety ...

— A Letter Book - Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing • George Saintsbury

... bound to such a man a minute longer than necessary he'd make a bargain with him at once and pay him part of the money right down. To-night, if he could get in touch with my husband. And so, Barney, since we had to act quick and there was no time to bring in another man that I could pass off as my husband, I confessed to him that I was ...

— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... necessary to confine as much as possible the animal heat, in most hives, during the season the bees are engaged in rearing young brood; and warmth is necessary to hatch the eggs, and develop the larvae; we all know that when the hive is close, less heat will pass off than if ...

— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby

... of term did not pass off quite so smoothly and pleasantly as it generally did. The opposition to monitorial authority which Harpour had commenced, and Kenrick abetted, did not pass away at once; it left a large amount of angry feeling in the minds of numerous boys who had, ...

— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... these tissues that the germ of gonorrhea finds lodgment, and once there its development is hard to interrupt. Although the growth of the gonorrheal germ produces acute symptoms, such as discharge and pain, these pass off under treatment in a few weeks. Unfortunately the disease is far from cured, for the microbe has found its natural habitat in the inter-cellular structure of the genital mucus, from which it cannot readily be dislodged, and from which it may invade other ...

— The Social Emergency - Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals • Various

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