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What is "pass off"

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pass off

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To happen. 2 (context transitive English) To misrepresent something. 3 To abate, to cease gradually.

WordNet
pass off

  1. v. be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity; "She passed off as a Russian agent"

  2. disregard; "She passed off the insult"

  3. cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity; "She passed the glass off as diamonds"; "He passed himself off as a secret agent"

  4. disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, fade, blow over, fleet, pass]

  5. come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" [syn: happen, hap, go on, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place]

  6. expel (gases or odors) [syn: emit, breathe]

Usage examples of "pass off".

Yet even this was marred by persistent rumours that she was not pregnant at all but planning to pass off a base-born baby as her heir.

But the reasonably healthy person knows in advance that, so far as he is concerned, mescalin is completely innocuous, that its effects will pass off after eight or ten hours, leaving no hangover and consequently no craving for a renewal of the dose.

In order to make everything pass off pleasantly, invited guests will bring or send their own strawberries and cream, which I shall be happy to sell to them at a slight advance.

Don't ask me, either, what lay behind that mole-like scrambling Pickman was so keen to pass off as rats.

And, that being so, it is better that a whole generation should pass off the face of the earth—.

Once in a while Myron's mother, who was still around and still had a fondness for Rigelians, would try to pass off some cousin or something as half-human just to get a permanent residence visa.

It was, he said, a constitutional and a family evil, and one for which he despaired to find a remedy -- a mere nervous affection, he immediately added, which would undoubtedly soon pass off.

As yet, I don't know how far I can go, since from a specimen Houdini story which Henneberger sent me I judge that the magician tries to pass off these Munchausens as real adventures.

Surely they'd been invented by a coterie of drunken artists trying to pass off their ravings as reality.