English-French translations for pass off

• faire passer
  Malheureusement le rapporteur, pour faire passer cette anomalie, se retranche derrière le caractère temporaire de la mesure. Unfortunately, in order to pass off this anomaly, the rapporteur is hiding behind the temporary nature of the measure.

Definition of pass off

• To happen
• To give something (to someone
• To misrepresent something
• To abate, to cease gradually

Examples

• The millennium passed off without any disasters
• He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine

Related words

• passage of lines
• Passion of Christ
• pass oneself off as
• pair of compasses
• rite of passage
• crime of passion
• bird of passage
• lack of compassion