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pass something off (on someone) (as something) and pass something off

to get rid of something deceptively by giving or selling it to someone as something else. I passed the rhinestone off on John as a diamond. Don't try to pass that fake off on me! He couldn't pass off the stone on the clever jeweler.

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But this sort of sickness used to pass off with the first sight of a familiar landmark. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context 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. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context 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. A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context			partners in crime party party line party piece party to party's over pass pass along pass around pass as pass away pass back pass by pass by on the other side pass down pass for pass forward pass from pass gas pass in pass in review pass into pass judgment pass judgment on pass muster pass off pass off as pass on pass out pass over pass sentence on pass the buck pass the hat pass the hat around pass the smell test pass the time pass the time of day pass the torch pass through pass through mind pass to pass under pass up passing passport to past past caring past master past prime paste paste down			pass judgment pass judgment pass judgment pass judgment on pass judgment upon Pass Law Pass Law Pass Law Pass laws Pass laws Pass laws Pass laws pass systems Pass Liaison Representative Pass line Pass line pass lips pass lips pass lips pass lips Pass Love Charity Foundation pass mark pass marks pass muster pass muster pass muster pass muster pass muster Pass My Shotgun PASS Network Control Center Pass of Dariel pass off pass off another’s ideas as one’s own pass off another’s writings as one’s own pass off as pass off as pass off as pass off as pass off as pass off as genuine pass on pass on pass on pass on pass on pass on again pass on information pass on the baton pass on the baton pass on the baton pass on to pass orders pass out pass out pass out pass out pass out pass out of sight Pass Out Victim pass over pass over pass over

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