What is "passed on"

Usage examples of "passed on".

He passed on that - someone else on the team went through the rubbish every day, so he'd only be duplicating work.

Kennedy, for whose teaching he always felt and expressed a strong sense of gratitude, and thence he passed on to Cambridge in 1838, and became a member of Trinity College.

All supplies being scarce at the front, Kemmerich's well-made leather boots are a prize passed on first to Muller and later to Paul.

The instability inherent in the original parent software continued to manifest itself in the copies of copies of copies passed on to later generations, and the new factories, along with their mixed populations of robot progeny, diverged further in form and function.

The marriage had great merit -- in Joe Newall's eyes, certainly -- because Cora was Carl's only living relative, and she would no doubt come into a nice little bundle when Carl passed on (as long as Joe remained on good terms with him, that was, and he had no intentions of being on anything less with the old fellow, who had been Damned Shrewd in his day but was considered to have become Rather Soft in his declining years).

While I was in Two, my temporary administrative secretary had taken a message, which she later passed on to me, from Klaus's lawyer.

So the heart and circulatory enhancements, and the bone-thinning and the flesh-wasting and the new growth crystals which sent spiderwebs of carbon fiber teasing their way up through your bone marrow, the Kevlar skin that the rapids surfers used, all the stuff which came stacked with health warnings and disclaimers that would have made the Surgeon General's warning on a packet of full-strength Camels look like a nursery tale: all of that they passed on.

Tim leapt up and licked Julian's left ear as he passed on his whirlwind way.

The musicians who had just passed on had not been like Elvis, who had believed in his own immortality.

Great lyrics about trusting yourself rang true within her and her voice sang out as the other car passed on her left.

Instead, he respectfully saluted us, and we passed on to the house.

They might have passed on the information their intelligence services picked up, quite legitimately.

Tommy Duggan passed on the tea, but could not resist helping himself to a couple of the chocolate-chip cookies she put out on a plate.

The innovators, not content with this first paradox, passed on to a second.