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Phrase(s): pass for someone or something
to be accepted as someone, some type of person, or something. • You could pass for your twin brother. • This painting could almost pass for the original., Phrase(s): pass for something
to pay for something; to treat someone by paying for something. • Come on. Let’s go out. I’ll pass for dinner. • I’ll pass for drinks if you want.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Be accepted as or believed to be, usually something that is not so. For example, Jean is 23 but could pass for a teenager, or They thought that copy would pass for an original. [Late 1500s]
American Heritage Idioms