pass off

English

Verb

pass off (third-person singular simple present passes off, present participle passing off, simple past and past participle passed off)

1. (intransitive) To happen.

   The millennium passed off without any disasters.

2. (transitive) To misrepresent something.

   He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.

3. To abate, to cease gradually.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55

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

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     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.

Translations

to happen

• Finnish: kulua (fi), mennä (fi)

to misrepresent

• Esperanto: akceptigi (eo)

• Finnish: esittää (fi), tarjota (fi)

to abate, to cease

• Russian: проходить (ru) (proxodítʼ) n  impf.