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Phrase(s): roll by
1. Lit. to pass by, rotating, as a wheel or a ball; to move past, rolling on wheels. • The wheel of a car rolled by, all by itself. It must have come off a car somewhere down the road. • The traffic rolled by relentlessly. 2. Fig. to move (past), as if rolling. • The years rolled by, and soon the two people were old and gray. • The clouds were rolling by, spreading patterns of light and dark across the land.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs