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pass off

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pass off
to happen in a particular way. The ceremony passed off without a problem, with the baby sleeping through most of it.
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But this sort of sickness used to pass off with the first sight of a familiar landmark.
It's very stupid, but it'll pass off," said Anna quickly, and she bent her flushed face over a tiny bag in which she was packing a nightcap and some cambric handkerchiefs.
I could but vaguely conjecture the cause of my paralysis, and my only hope lay in that it might pass off as suddenly as it had fallen upon me.
 
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