to pass something on some one

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to pass something on some one - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pass \Pass\, v. t.
     1. In simple, transitive senses; as:
        (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to
            proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a
            house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
        (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend;
            to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to
            suffer. "To pass commodiously this life." --Milton.
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                  She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
                                                    --Shak.
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        (c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to
            take no note of; to disregard.
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                  Please you that I may pass This doing. --Shak.
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                  I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
                                                    --Dryden.
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        (d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
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                  And strive to pass . . .
                  Their native music by her skillful art.
                                                    --Spenser.
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                  Whose tender power
                  Passes the strength of storms in their most
                  desolate hour.                    --Byron.
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        (e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail,
            test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a
            legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the
            bill passed the senate.
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     2. In causative senses: as:
        (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one
            person, place, or condition to another; to transmit;
            to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter
            passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from
            hand to hand.
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                  I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
                                                    --Addison.
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                  Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot
                  by Newbridge.                     --Clarendon.
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        (b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce;
            hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
            --Shak.
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                  Father, thy word is passed.       --Milton.
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        (c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on
            with success through an ordeal, examination, or
            action; specifically, to give legal or official
            sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid
            and just; as, he passed the bill through the
            committee; the senate passed the law.
        (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to
            pass counterfeit money. "Pass the happy news."
            --Tennyson.
        (f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance;
            as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a
            railroad.
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     3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
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     4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as
        around a sail in furling, and make secure.
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     5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. --Shak.
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     Passed midshipman. See under Midshipman.
  
     To pass a dividend, to omit the declaration and payment of
        a dividend at the time when due.
  
     To pass away, to spend; to waste. "Lest she pass away the
        flower of her age." --Ecclus. xlii. 9.
  
     To pass by.
        (a) To disregard; to neglect.
        (b) To excuse; to spare; to overlook.
  
     To pass off, to impose fraudulently; to palm off. "Passed
        himself off as a bishop." --Macaulay.
  
     To pass (something) on (some one) or To pass (something) upon (some one)
     , to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm
        off. "She passed the child on her husband for a boy."
        --Dryden.
  
     To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to
        pass over an affront.
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