pass off
Example Sentences
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To save face with her fellow pensioners, Mrs. Palfrey passes off a struggling writer she meets on the street as her grandson, only to draw confusingly close to him.
“We didn’t pass off the full tariff, and we mitigated wherever we could.”
Members of the crafting community in Cornwall have said they are seeing a rise in cheap imported goods being passed off as handmade local produce.
From BBC
The match against Aston Villa, policed by more than 700 officers, passed off without serious disorder and only a handful of arrests.
From BBC
Proponents argue that eel species are effectively indistinguishable when young -- the point at which they are generally traded -- meaning the critically endangered Anguilla anguilla is often being passed off as other species.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
