pass oneself off as someone or something Definition

pass
verb passed, passing

tr & intr
1. To come alongside and progress beyond something or someone.

Example: passed her on the stairs
Thesaurus: move, go by, go past, shoot ahead of, go beyond, overtake, outdistance.
intr
2. To run, flow, progress, etc.

Example: blood passing through our veins
tr & intr
3. To go or make it go, penetrate, etc.

Example: pass through a filter
Form: pass through, into etc something or pass something through, into etc something (also)
tr & intr
4. To move lightly across, over, etc something.

Example: pass a duster over the furniture
intr
5. To move from one state or stage to another.

Example: pass from the larval to the pupal stage
6. To exceed or surpass.

Example: pass the target
tr & intr
7. Said of a vehicle: to overtake.
tr & intr
8a. To achieve the required standard in (a test, etc);
8b. To award (a student, etc) the marks required for success in a test, etc.
intr
9. To take place.

Example: what passed between them
tr & intr
10. Said of time: to go by; to use up (time) in some activity, etc.
tr & intr
11. To be inherited; to hand it down.

Form: pass down (usually)
Form: pass something down
tr & intr
12. sport.
To throw or kick (the ball, etc) to another player in one's team.
tr & intr
13. To agree to (a proposal or resolution) or be agreed to; to vote (a law) into effect.

Thesaurus: enact, legislate, establish, vote in, accept, adopt, approve, authorize.
14. Said of a judge or law court: to pronounce (judgement).
intr
15. To go away after a while.

Example: her nausea passed
intr
16. To be accepted, tolerated or ignored.

Example: let it pass
intr
17. To choose not to answer in a quiz, etc or bid in a card game.
18. To make (a comment, etc).
19. To discharge (urine or faeces).

noun passes

1. A route through a gap in a mountain range.
2. An official card or document permitting one to enter somewhere, be absent from duty, etc.

Thesaurus: permit, licence, authorization, admission, ticket, passport, visa.
3. A successful result in an examination, but usually without distinction or honours.
4. sport.
A throw, kick, hit, etc to another player in one's team.
5. A state of affairs.

Example: came to a sorry pass
6. A decision not to answer in a quiz, etc, or not to bid in a card game.

Idiom: come to pass (be brought to pass)

To happen.
Thesaurus: come about, happen, occur, develop, transpire.

Idiom: make a pass at someone

To make a casual sexual advance towards them.
Example: made a pass at a gorgeous man at the party

Idiom: pass the buck

See under buck.

Idiom: pass the time of day

To exchange an ordinary greeting with someone.

Etymology: 13c: from Latin passus step or pace.

Phrasal Verb: pass as or for someone or something

To be mistaken for or accepted as (a different person or thing).

Phrasal Verb: pass oneself off as someone or something

To represent oneself in that way.
Example: tried to pass themselves off as students

Phrasal Verb: pass away or on

To die.

Phrasal Verb: pass by

To go past.

Phrasal Verb: pass by something or someone

To go past them.

Phrasal Verb: pass something or someone by

To overlook or ignore them.

Phrasal Verb: pass off

Said of a sickness or feeling, etc: to go away; to diminish.Said of an arranged event: to take place with the result specified.
Example: The party passed off very well

Phrasal Verb: pass something off

To successfully present (something which is fraudulent).

Phrasal Verb: pass something on

To hand it on or transmit it to someone else.See pass something round below.

Phrasal Verb: pass out

To faint.To leave a military or police college having successfully completed one's training.

Phrasal Verb: pass over something

To overlook it; to ignore it.

Phrasal Verb: pass something round, on

To circulate it; to hand or transfer it from one person to the next in succession.
Example: pass the memo round the office
Example: was passed on

Phrasal Verb: pass something up

To neglect or sacrifice (an opportunity).