pass over

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pass over someone/something

to ignore someone or something. Thirty attorneys were passed over for promotion by the department.

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In Alan's view, besides, the hunt must have now greatly slackened; and the line of the Forth and even Stirling Bridge, which is the main pass over that river, would be watched with little interest. Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context The position was one of misery for all three; and not one of them would have been equal to enduring this position for a single day, if it had not been for the expectation that it would change, that it was merely a temporary painful ordeal which would pass over. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context The reader will be pleased to remember, that, at the beginning of the second book of this history, we gave him a hint of our intention to pass over several large periods of time, in which nothing happened worthy of being recorded in a chronicle of this kind. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context More results

References in classic literature

In Alan's view, besides, the hunt must have now greatly slackened; and the line of the Forth and even Stirling Bridge, which is the main pass over that river, would be watched with little interest.

Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

The position was one of misery for all three; and not one of them would have been equal to enduring this position for a single day, if it had not been for the expectation that it would change, that it was merely a temporary painful ordeal which would pass over.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

The reader will be pleased to remember, that, at the beginning of the second book of this history, we gave him a hint of our intention to pass over several large periods of time, in which nothing happened worthy of being recorded in a chronicle of this kind.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

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