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pass for (someone or something)

Bypass definition: 1. To avoid something by going around it: 2. To ignore a rule or official authority: 3. The next pass by the rings' outer edges is planned for Dec. (Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA) Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began. Pass someone by, pass by someoneHappen without being noticed or fully experienced by someone. ‘If you are not accustomed to being up at this hour, it's one of those pleasures in life that is passing you by.’. ‘In a fret about how life is passing us by, we feel compelled to draw up a list of all our faults and failures.’. Refers back to the line 'the act of a noble warrior who lost the will to fight.' I think Jesus Christ is the 'noble warrior' who 'set a bad example' and 'made surrender seem alright'. It makes perfect sense with Neil's thoughts on religion.

1. To be able to be accepted as or believed to be someone or something else. The fact that glass can so easily pass for diamond among most consumers tells me that the gem's value is kind of a hoax.With the right clothes and makeup, I think you could easily pass for an adult.
2. To cause someone or something be accepted as or believed to be someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between 'pass' and 'for.' A fancy glass exterior isn't enough to pass this budget phone for the premium gadget the company wants you to think that it is.A nice suit could easily pass you for a respectable businessman.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

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.

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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

pass for

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]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

pass for

v.
To be accepted as something; be believed to be something: The fake painting passed for an original. If you wore that heavy coat and fur hat, you could pass for a Russian.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Pass Us By Meaning Dictionary

pass for something

in. to pay for something; to treat someone by paying for something. Come on. Let’s go out. I’ll pass for dinner.
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If we make haste, we shall pass by them presently, and I am dying to show you my hat.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She would certainly pass by, for that way led home.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So afraid you might have a headache!—seeing you pass by so often, and knowing how much trouble you must have.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.

(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Pass Us By Meaning Words

Pass

To pass by; having passed by.

(Elapse, NCI Thesaurus)

But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

On Oct. 12 EDT (Oct. 11 PDT), a small asteroid designated 2012 TC4 will safely pass by Earth at a distance of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers).

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The next pass by the rings' outer edges is planned for Dec. 11.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.

What does pass by mean

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)