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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

... ordeal he had just passed through. First impressions are not made on women of Cecil Tresilyan's class so easily as they are upon guileless debutantes; but they are far more important and lasting. It is useless attempting to pass off counterfeit coin on those expert money-changers; but they value the pure gold all the more when it rings sharp and true. It is always so with those who have once been Queens of Beauty. A certain imperial dignity ...

— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence

... dissatisfied with her maid. Strange; she had nothing to say against her, but the sight of the girl annoyed her, she could hardly endure to have her about the place. It all arose, no doubt, from Inger's state of mind; she had been heavy and religious all that winter, and it would not pass off. "Want to leave, do you? Why, then, well and good," said Inger. It was a blessing, the fulfilment of nightly prayers. Two grown women they were already, what did they want with this Jensine, fresh as could ...

— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun

... Jeremy said after a little. Still the other kept silent. His face darkened: by God, if Barzil hadn't a decent word for the fact that Gerrit was seven months overdue, perhaps lost, this was not a house for him. "I say that we've had nothing from my son since he lay in the Lye-ee-Moon Pass off ...

— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer

... contretemps we had had were the doing of Lady Ver. "You need not answer, dear," she said. "I know Ianthe. She is in love with Robert herself; she can't help it; she means no harm, but she often gets these attacks, and they pass off. I think she is ...

— Red Hair • Elinor Glyn

... Androvsky, why should she mind? Antagonism to the priesthood was certainly not a mental condition to be fostered, but a prejudice to be broken down. But she had wished—she still wished with ardour—that Androvsky's first visit to the garden should be a happy one, should pass off delightfully. She had a dawning instinct to make things smooth for him. Surely they had been rough in the past, rougher even than for herself. And she wondered for an instant whether he had come to Beni-Mora, as she had ...

— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens

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