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pass off

verb

  1. offer for acceptance under false pretext
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To happen.

    The millennium passed off without any disasters.

  2. To give something (to someone).

    2015. Off the Rim. Sonya Spreen Bates. He turned and passed it off to number 23, who dribbled a couple of times and passed it to number 61.

  3. To abate, to cease gradually.

    I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.

    I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.

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