Are you going to pass up a chance to share songwriting credits with Dylan?
Chevy Chase would be one of the stars and Harold Ramis would direct; the opportunity was too good to pass up.
But the New York press conference for American Hustle was too good to pass up.
Whereas if Obama wins, the first-black-followed-by-first-woman scenario will just be too tempting for Democrats to pass up.
For such a breed of politician, the chance to let the Bush tax cuts lapse may simply be too tempting to pass up.
They pass up the church-aisle, and raise their eyes to the ceiling.
Just a chance I couldn't afford to pass up, of digging into Peppajee.
"If you will be so good," and he stood aside for Michael to pass up the stairs in front of him.
I saw them pass up Moose Creek from a ledge on which I was lying.
So I guess they decided to pass up the horses and only take some grub.
"written permission to pass into, or through, a place," 1590s, from pass (v.). Sense of "ticket for a free ride or admission" is first found 1838. Colloquial make a pass "offer an amorous advance" first recorded 1928, perhaps from a sporting sense. Phrase come to pass (late 15c.) uses the word with a sense of "completion, accomplishment."
late 13c. (transitive) "to go by (something)," also "to cross over," from Old French passer (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *passare "to step, walk, pass" (cf. Spanish pasar, Italian passare), from Latin passus "step, pace" (see pace (n.)). Intransitive sense of "to go on, to move forward, make one's way" is attested from c.1300. Figurative sense of "to experience, undergo" (as in pass the time) is first recorded late 14c. Sense of "to go through an examination successfully" is from early 15c. Meaning "decline to do something" is attested from 1869, originally in cards (euchre). In football, hockey, soccer, etc., the meaning "to transfer the ball or puck to another player" is from c.1865. Related: Passed; passing.
The meaning "to be thought to be something one is not" (especially in racial sense) is from 1935, from pass oneself off (as), first found 1809. The general verb sense of "to be accepted as equivalent" is from 1590s. Pass up "decline, refuse" is attested from 1896. Pass the buck is from 1865, said to be poker slang reference to the buck horn-handled knife that was passed around to signify whose turn it was to deal. Pass the hat "seek contributions" is from 1762. Pass-fail as a grading method is attested from 1955, American English.
"mountain defile," c.1300, from Old French pas "step, track, passage," from Latin passus "step, pace" (see pace (n.)).
pass (pās)
v. passed, pass·ing, pass·es
To go across; go through.
To cause to move into a certain position.
To cease to exist; die.
To be voided from the body.
noun phrase
Asexualadvance; proposition (1928+)
verb
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[in the first verb sense, pass oneself off as is found by 1809]